CPALL , RCPALL - for local and remote directory tree/file transfer Usage: cpall sourcedir destinationdir Caveat: destinationdir must exist and be writeable by the user Usage: rcpall sourcedir remotemachine destinationdir If user name is different on the remote machine, then second" entry is "remotemachine -l remoteusername" Caveats: rsh, copy, and write permissions required You must be on the source machine, destinationdir must exist and be writeable by the user. Notes: Both of these shell scripts use tar to do the transfer.