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Subject: Re: SCP & Delete
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> On 2/6/07, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 6, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Don O'Neil wrote:
> > > How do I delete a file after I've copied it with SCP? Is there some
> > > sort of
> > > secure 'rm' command?
> >
> > Use "rsync --delete" via SSH.  (Danger!  Slippery when wet!  Use with
> > caution.)
> >
> > --
> > -Chuck
>
>
> I am not sure the rsync --delete is what the OP intended.  rsync --delete
> will delete the file on the remote location if it no longer exists in the
> source location.  The OP wanted to, as I understood it, delete the file from
> the source location after it was copied to the remote location.  Probably
> the best bet would to be to have a script scp the files, do some sort of
> verification that they made it intact, and then do an ssh user@host"/path/to/file" as suggested earlier.
>
> HTH,
>
> Preston
>
>