On Sunday 19 June 2016 22:15:50 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 15/06/2016 12:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > scp /path/to/file username@a:/path/to/destination > > use: > scp -p source destination > > Without -p, you get a new date/timestamp at the very least. Always a > good idea(tm) to use -p when copying, even locally.
Thanks, Andrew! There was I thinking that -p preserved permissions, and that the p stood for permissions! I have looked it up now. It is obviously extremely useful, not to say indispensable. I had, up to now, only used it where I wanted to preserve permissions. Lisi
