How about SSHFS?

http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would definitely like rsync support.
>
> On 5 December 2015 at 21:21, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 6 December 2015 at 02:01, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:32 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> However, I have just discovered that although SFTP has a recursive put
>> >> command, it does not have a recursive delete.
>> >>
>> >> Directories can only be removed when they are empty.
>> >>
>> >> As you can imagine, that makes tidying up after staging a website very
>> >> tiresome (especially ones with Javadoc and source xref)
>> >
>> > I was passively monitoring this thread and dusting off my expect(1) man
>> page,
>> > but this could be a deal breaker even with automation.
>>
>> It seems that sftp does not even support recursive listing, so one way
>> to automate the process would be to use ls -l to show the directories,
>> parse the response to find the subdirs, etc.
>> Possible, but pretty tedious, and generates a lot of unnecessary
>> network traffic.
>>
>> Another option is to use rm *;rm */*;rm */*/* etc to the maximum depth
>> expected.
>> That works for files.
>>
>> Unfortunately it seems that rmdir * is not supported, so the
>> directories have to be done individually
>> This will require listing parsing as above, but at least the listings
>> will be somewhat shorter.
>>
>> [Note that sftp supports batch input, so this can all be be done without
>> expect]
>>
>> Having rsync would make it somewhat easier.
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Roman.
>>
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