When the -R option is specified, the directory trees are listed recursively. When the -l option is specified, permissions, owners, sizes and modification times are also shown. When no arguments are given, it is assumed that the contents of . are being listed. Same as ls, but operates on the local files. Directories are recursively copied with their contents.
Directories are recursively copied with their contents.
The format is described in the man page sshregex. In a test conduced on our local network a Network Sniffer was able to catch a mean of 4 password by hour, from ftp connections. The introduction of sftp as standard protocol for transfer file across the network could eliminate this security problem. It is probably the simplest way to copy a file into a remote machine. In such a way the file filename is copied with the same name.