sanctus Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 I guess if you know what scp exactly does, this is a stupid question, but I was wondering (actually I "need" it :-), there is always a workaround): is there an option with scp, that does the same as cp -u? I.e. which copies only the files if they are newer at the source (update)? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 sanctus, honestly i dont remember there being one, otherwise, something this helpful would have been documented, but why would you want to use scp in this case, it seems that what you need to use is rsync which has options for the -u option and is made specifically for the task of file syncing, which you seem to be trying to do :phones: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctus Posted March 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 so rsync can also be used when copying between different machines? I never heard of rsync before... And it is not really a syncronization I try to do, I make my runs on a cluster and the result files have similar names, so to not have to spell them out but use * and not copying to my machine every time stuff I already have, I was looking for the -u option... you see it is not THAT important, I can also just write out the names (in this case at least, I do not have hundreds of result files). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 rsync's purpose in life is file syncronization between machines, it's rsync's destiny, it has options for the update option, infact it has options for options for the update option, rsync is your friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctus Posted March 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Ok, got it Alex, thanks. :phones: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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