scp : recursive copy doesn't work

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi

I have a problem with scp command :

I try to copy a list of files from source to destination, it works fine but if there is a directory not existing on destination, it doesn't automatic create.

Syntax :

scp -rp /<PATH>/<NEW_DIR>/<FILE> <USER_DEST>@<HOST_DEST>:<PATH>/<NEW_DIR>/<FILE>

scp: <PATH>/<NEW_DIR>/<FILE>: No such file or directory

Any idea ?

TY
Mat

2

It works for me. What is the OS/platform?

Or may be you need something like this?

scp -rp /<PATH>/<NEW_DIR>/<FILE> <USER_DEST>@<HOST_DEST>:<PATH>/
3

OS/platform is Linux RHEL4.

With your code, the file is directly copied on <PATH> and <NEW_DIR> is not created.

Another way ?

4 
scp -rp /<PATH>/<NEW_DIR> <USER_DEST>@<HOST_DEST>:<PATH>/

The above will create <NEW_DIR> and copy its content.
If that's not what you want, I suppose you could
run ssh mkdir -p ... before running the scp command ...

5

Thank you, but I'd like to automatic create the correct path on destination but maybe it's not possible...

6

With tar and ssh you can do something like this:

tar cvf - ./new_dir/file | ssh user@host 'tar pxvf -'