Re: sftp(1) -r option on get and put

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:21:30AM -0500, Christopher Berardi wrote:
> So, what's the story with the -r option?

The story is:

1.) You are reading the wrong manual page. Here is the correct one:

        http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sftp+1+NetBSD-5.1

    And it doesn't mention the "-r" option with isn't present in NetBSD 5.1
    as you already found out.

2.) The OpenSSH version distributed with NetBSD-current (5.6) is newer
    than the version in NetBSD 5.1 (5.0) and therefore supports the
    "-r" option for sftp(1).

3.) You could use either "scp -r ..." or "rsync -r ..." to transfer
    complete directory trees over an SSH connection.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/