03-03-2005
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The main difference in practical operation between SCP and SFTP/FTP is that for SFTP or FTP you set up a connection and can then carry out a whole series of operations (including many which are not actually transfers, such as listing or even deleting files on the remote system). With many SCP clients, a single command normally transfers a single file or group of files, and to list files on the remote system, for instance, you have to login as a separate exercise (normally using ssh, the secure alternative to telnet). Note that WinSCP, although described as an SCP client, provides facilities more like those of FTP or SFTP, and offers an SFTP mode as an option.
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University of Cambridge (You can tell this is dated since they state that 'neither SFTP or SCP is universally available')
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libssh2_sftp_rmdir_ex
libssh2_sftp_rmdir_ex(3) libssh2 manual libssh2_sftp_rmdir_ex(3)
NAME
libssh2_sftp_rmdir_ex - remove an SFTP directory
SYNOPSIS
#include <libssh2.h>
#include <libssh2_sftp.h>
int libssh2_sftp_rmdir_ex(LIBSSH2_SFTP *sftp, const char *path,
unsigned int path_len);
DESCRIPTION
Remove a directory from the remote file system.
sftp - SFTP instance as returned by libssh2_sftp_init(3)
sourcefile - Full path of the existing directory to remove.
sourcefile_len - Length of the full path of the existing directory to remove.
RETURN VALUE
Return 0 on success or negative on failure. It returns LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN when it would otherwise block. While LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN is a
negative number, it isn't really a failure per se.
ERRORS
LIBSSH2_ERROR_ALLOC - An internal memory allocation call failed.
LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_SEND - Unable to send data on socket.
LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_TIMEOUT -
LIBSSH2_ERROR_SFTP_PROTOCOL - An invalid SFTP protocol response was received on the socket, or an SFTP operation caused an errorcode to be
returned by the server.
SEE ALSO
libssh2_sftp_init(3)
libssh2 0.15 1 Jun 2007 libssh2_sftp_rmdir_ex(3)