It sounds like you want the semantics of rsync -a. See the rsync man page for 
instructions on using ssh as the transport, I have done this before and it 
works wonderfully.

- Eric



----- Original Message ----
From: alan mcclellan <[email protected]>
To: Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com>
Cc: docs-discuss at opensolaris.org; Euan Thoms <euan at potensol.com>
Sent: Wed, November 11, 2009 9:33:03 AM
Subject: Re: [docs-discuss] scp no-clobber option??

Does rsync do what you want (update only the modified files)?

-alan

Rainer Heilke wrote:
> Sorry, I've looked for something like this several times myself, but never 
> found anything.
> 
> What I tend to do now is scp everything to a new directory, and then mv -i it 
> to the final spot. Does nothing to conserve disk space or network traffic, 
> though...
> 
> Rainer
> 
> Euan Thoms wrote:
>> Is there an option for no-clobber (does not overwrite existing files) in the 
>> command scp? "man scp" doesn' t reveal anything. I got one hit in google 
>> which indicated that there was but perhaps that was the GNU version of scp.
> 
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