NAME
rcp - remote file copy

SYNOPSIS
rcp [ -p ] file1 file2
rcp [ -p ] [ -r ] file ... directory

DESCRIPTION
Rcp copies files between machines. Each file or directory argument
is either a remote file name of the form "rhost:path", or a local
file name (containing no ‘:’ characters, or a ‘/’ before any ‘:’s).

If the -r option is specified and any of the source files are
directories, rcp copies each subtree rooted at that name; in this
case the destination must be a directory.

By default, the mode and owner of file2 are preserved if it already
existed; otherwise the mode of the source file modified by the
umask(2) on the destination host is used. The -p option causes rcp
to attempt to preserve (duplicate) in its copies the modification
times and modes of the source files, ignoring the umask.

If path is not a full path name, it is interpreted relative to your
login directory on rhost. A path on a remote host may be quoted
(using ", or ’) so that the metacharacters are interpreted
remotely.

Rcp does not prompt for passwords; your current local user name
must exist on rhost and allow remote command execution via rsh(1).

Rcp handles third party copies, where neither source nor target
files are on the current machine. Hostnames may also take the form
"rname@rhost" to use rname rather than the current user name on
the remote host.

SEE ALSO
cp(1), ftp(1), rsh(1), rlogin(1)

BUGS
Doesn’t detect all cases where the target of a copy might be a file
in cases where only a directory should be legal.

Is confused by any output generated by commands in a .login,
.profile, or .cshrc file on the remote host.

The destination user and hostname may have to be specified as
"rhost.rname" when the destination machine is running the 4.2BSD
version of rcp.