Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 27, 2007 03:22 PM
...until you want to transfer a large directory tree which includes symbolic links, and want to keep symbolic links on the target system. scp does not do this (or not that I have found) - it will copy the actual file instead of recreating the symlink.
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Re:But what is it REALLY for?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 27, 2007 03:22 PM#