[ On Tuesday, October 12, 1999 at 13:59:46 (-0400), Brian Wellington wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: sftp
>
> How about transferring multiple files that can't easily be expressed with
> a wildcard, or in both directions?
And just how do you do this more conveniently with FTP? Let me guess
one scenario where this would make any difference: you have a pre-canned
list of files. If so then just do something like the equivalent of "scp
`cat file.list` remote.host:/dest/dir". This isn't rocket science! ;-)
> Or transferring files that you don't
> know the path of (one sftp session is more efficient that an ssh session
> and an scp).
Unless you do this extremely frequently and every time you do it there's
a different unknown pathname involved then I personally don't see that
efficiency matters a whole heck of a lot. The point is to get the job
done. As Knuth has said many times over "Premature optimisation is the
root of all evil...."
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