Would rsync qualify as an scp replacement? It supports resumes via --partial On Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 7:29 AM Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Jan 24 03:47, Malcolm wrote: > > Quoting Chris High <highc@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > caught my eye. Do you see any 'advantage' to using sftp with an > untrusted > > > server? If so, any thoughts about making an easy way to disable scp > both > > > client and server side when doing an installation? > > > > SFTP allows file resume, while scp does not. If this isn't the case, I'm > > welcome to be corrected. > > > > scp's command line interface is intuitive and reasonably sensible, > especially > > as a follow-on to ncftp/friends like interfaces, a la > local->remote/remote-local. > > > > Problem is, scp doesn't let you resume interrupting up/downloads. So we > have > > to use the nasty/non-CLI-friendly sftp thing, which doesn't (seem) to > support > > fairly straightforward mechanisms (user@hostname:/file/pathname/object > <-> > > local object sort of stuff. > > > > There are too many arbitrary "issues" between the sftp/scp/ftps > > implementations to sort for end-users for them to pick outside of which > one > > "gets the job done". > > > > I wish there was a way for either sftp to get scp-like interfaces, or > scp to > > get all of the functionality of sftp, so the 'other' can die the > ignominious > > death it deserves. > > What's missing in sftp is a drop in replacement mode for copying to > the remote server, i.e. this should work out of the box: > > $ sftp -rp local_dir server:path > > But, alas: > > ssh: Could not resolve hostname local_dir: Name or service not known > > If sftp had this mode, I would alias scp=sftp and be done with it. > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen > Cygwin Maintainer > Red Hat > _______________________________________________ > openssh-unix-dev mailing list > openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev > _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
