Dear Holger,
> I tried
> tar -cvf - sourcefiles | scp - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> which would be prepared for password handling etc.
Standard input is not a file. You can't cp it either. The proper syntax
has been explained in maybe ten different posts today.
> Unfortunately scp does not support neither "-" nor "/dev/stdin".
> Would that hard to implement into the next version?
The existing functionality is quite sufficient. The preferable way, of
course, would be for people to read the instructions, but of course
that's way too hard to implement, and no amount of work from SSH Inc.
will change that.
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