Hello, Now that scp uses the sftp protocol, wouldn’t it be a good idea to add an --interactive option à la cp to it? It seems to me that one common usage of scp is to make sure that the files being copied are available on the remote machine, but without overwriting anything (and certainly not silently). I find myself very often in this situation, but judging by the number of questions about such a possibility on the web, I am not the only one. rsync’s --ignore-existing does not help, because it skips files silently. An --interactive option that behaves just like the one in cp would solve the issue for me. I would happily alias scp to scp --interactive. Is there any technical or other reason why scp does not have such an option or something similar? Cheers Christoph
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