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Linux equivalent to robocopy?

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Mar 15, 202694532 views
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It’s kind of funny, there are a lot of ways in which Linux command line tools are vastly superior to Windows ones, but one thing I have not found an equivalent to is robocopy. Robocopy is way more versatile than , and I can’t figure out how to do what I want with Linux tools. A specific use case is…

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robocopy source destination /XO /E /XD .svn /XF *.pyc

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It sounds like rsync is definitely what you are after. You do not need to set up an 'rsync server' to copy files from one machine to another. Rsync supports copying files over SFTP (SSH File Transfer) which most linux boxes have enabled already (if …

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