On 06/14/2011 04:52 AM, LEVAI Daniel wrote:
Hi!
Uploading a directory recursively fails if it doesn't exist on the
remote site:
sftp> put -r nonexistent\ directory/
Uploading nonexistent directory/ to /tmp/nonexistent directory
Couldn't canonicalise: No such file or directory
sftp> mkdir nonexistent\ directory/
sftp> put -r nonexistent\ directory/
^^^ success
It should create the directory first, and then copy the content, no?
This is on -current:
$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_5.8, OpenSSL 1.0.0a 1 Jun 2010
Daniel
Did you try doing it with a directory without a space in it? Not that
the space shouldn't work, but it might narrow down the problem (as might
grepping the source for that error message).