PCP(1)

NAME

pcp - copy files

pcp [-d LEVEL] [-p DEVNAME] [-h] [:]SOURCE [[:]DESTINATION]

pcp copies a file on a device connected through SynCE or between a device connected through SynCE and host PC.

Forward slashes ('/') in remote file names specified on the command line are converted to backward slashes ('\').

This tool must be run as the same user as the dccmd daemon.

-r Copy directories recursively.

-d LEVEL: Set debug log level:; 0 - No logging (default); 1 - Errors only; 2 - Errors and warnings; 3 - Everything
-p DEVNAME: Use the device with the given name, instead of the default.
-h Display help message.
[:]SOURCE: Full path to the source filename. When the filename is prefixed with a colon (':'), it will be treated as a remote filename, otherwise as a local filename.
[:]DESTINATION: Full path to the destination filename. When the filename is prefixed with a colon (':'), it will be treated as a remote filename, otherwise as a local filename.; If this parameter is omitted and the source filename is local, the local file will be copied to a file with the same name in the "My Documents" directory on the device connected through SynCE.; If this parameter is omitted and the source filename is remote, the remote file will be copied to a file with the same name in the current directory.

Copy a file from host computer to remote device:: pcp download/game.cab ":/Temporary Files/game.cab"
Copy a file from remote device to host computer:: pcp ":/My Documents/snore.wav" /tmp/snore.wav
Copy a file from host computer to remote device into the "My Document" folder - you can leave off the last parameter:: pcp "work/mytext.txt"
Copy a file from remote device to host computer into the current directory - you can leave off the last parameter:: pcp ":/My Documents/snore.wav"
Copy a file from one location on the remote device to another:: pcp ":/My Documents/important.pwi" ":/My Documents/important.backup.pwi"

This manual page was written by David Eriksson <twogood@users.sourceforge.net>.