Hello:

I am trying to do a recursive scp copy and found a command embedded in a java app that is attempting to do just that. The command is "scp -d -t -r /mnt/mydir/".

When I try this from the shell, it is sending back " scp: /mnt/mydir/: No such file or directory".

A couple of questions here:

1) what are the -d and -t options? There is no mention of these in the man pages for scp.

2) Given the above command, how does scp know where to send the files, to what remote server?

Please help if you have any idea.
I basically just want to start at a given directory heirarchy and traverse it to the point where there are only files, and scp all of those files to a given remote box.

Thanks in advance,

MC

Nor in mine.

It doesn't. The proper syntax is:
scp [[user@]host1:]file1 [...] [user@]host2:]file2

for example:

scp -r mydir user@otherhost:/tmp