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@(#)rcp.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
$FreeBSD: stable/10/bin/rcp/rcp.1 320646 2017-07-04 15:53:54Z allanjude $
.Dd July 3, 2017 .Dt RCP 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm rcp .Nd remote file copy .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl 46p .Ar file1 file2 .Nm .Op Fl 46pr .Ar .Ar directory .Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE .Nm is deprecated and will be removed from future versions of the .Fx base system. If .Nm is still required, it can be installed from ports or packages (net/bsdrcmds). .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility copies files between machines. Each .Ar file or .Ar directory argument is either a remote file name of the form .Dq ruser@rhost:path , or a local file name (containing no .Ql :\& characters, or a .Ql / before any .Ql : Ns s).
p The following options are available: l -tag -width indent t Fl 4 Use IPv4 addresses only. t Fl 6 Use IPv6 addresses only. t Fl p Cause .Nm to attempt to preserve (duplicate) in its copies the modification times and modes of the source files, ignoring the .Xr umask 2 . By default, the mode and owner of .Ar file2 are preserved if it already existed; otherwise the mode of the source file modified by the .Xr umask 2 on the destination host is used. t Fl r If any of the source files are directories, .Nm copies each subtree rooted at that name; in this case the destination must be a directory. .El
p If .Ar path is not a full path name, it is interpreted relative to the login directory of the specified user .Ar ruser on .Ar rhost , or your current user name if no other remote user name is specified. A .Ar path on a remote host may be quoted (using .Ql \e , .Ql " , or .Ql \(aa ) so that the metacharacters are interpreted remotely.
p The .Nm utility does not prompt for passwords; it performs remote execution via .Xr rsh 1 , and requires the same authorization.
p The .Nm utility handles third party copies, where neither source nor target files are on the current machine. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cp 1 , .Xr ftp 1 , .Xr rlogin 1 , .Xr rsh 1 , .Xr hosts.equiv 5 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm command appeared in x 4.2 . The version of .Nm described here has been reimplemented with Kerberos in x 4.3 Reno . .Sh BUGS Does not detect all cases where the target of a copy might be a file in cases where only a directory should be legal.
p Is confused by any output generated by commands in a
a .login ,
a .profile , or
a .cshrc file on the remote host.
p The destination user and hostname may have to be specified as .Dq rhost.ruser when the destination machine is running the x 4.2 version of .Nm .