Sorry for dragging up a month old thread, but I was looking into this for something at work and found this blog post that documents how to use the scp protocol pretty nicely:
http://blogs.oracle.com/janp/entry/how_the_scp_protocol_works - Chris On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM, John Abreau <j...@blu.org> wrote: > Long ago, I was looking for a way to make scp read from stdin, and I > had no luck. > > Earlier this afternoon, when I was tweaking my "validate-rsync" script to > add > support for scp, I discovered that when running the command > > > scp foo remote:/path/to/bar > > the remote end gets invoked as > > > scp -t /path/to/bar > > It seems that the scp process on the local machine establishes an ssh > connection > to the remote machine, and then invokes an scp process on the remote > machine, > and that remote scp process has to read from stdin. > When I checked the scp man page, there was no mention of the -t > option, nor is it > listed in "scp --help". A google search for "scp -t" didn't locate any > mention of > the option, and another google search for "scp from stdin" yielded nothing > but > questions of how to do it followed by replies that "scp cannot read > from stdin". > > Is this documented anywhere? I don't understand why the option would be > left out of the man page. > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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