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Old 02-27-2014
Can we scp the folders only
Hi,

I have a parent folder which has many subfolders and files. The subfolders also have many files.

I wish to scp the parent folder along with the sub folders but none of the files.

Is it possible ? Please let me know.
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Old 02-27-2014
scp is not a shell and can't really make decisions that way. scp doesn't really do recursion, either. Do you have shell access?
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Old 02-27-2014
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Originally Posted by Corona688
scp is not a shell and can't really make decisions that way. scp doesn't really do recursion, either. Do you have shell access?
yes, i hv access to "sh" on that unix box. Any workaround
Last edited by mohtashims; 02-27-2014 at 01:15 PM..
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Old 02-27-2014
Code:
find . -type d | ssh username@host 'cd /path/to/destination && while read folder ; do echo mkdir -p "$folder" ; done'

Remove the echo once you're sure its doing what you want.
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Old 02-27-2014
scp uses ssh transport.
So you can use a combination of find, cpio (or tar), ssh.
For example
Code:
find dir -type d |
cpio -o |
ssh remotehost cpio -i -d

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