Erase the source file open; specify a tempfile name option

[Kaelin Colclasure]

Wayne Davison wrote:
> 
> I'm curious how to go about submitting a suggestion that affects both
> the original BSD version and the portable release.  A few days ago I
> sent off a BSD-relative patch to openssh at openssh.com.  Is this the right
> thing to do?  I didn't hear anything back, but it's only been 3 days, so
> I'm probably just being too antsy.
> 
> In the meantime, maybe someone else out there would like to check this
> out.  Appended is a version of my patch for the latest portable code
> (relative to the CVS version).  It adds two new options to scp that I
> find useful:
> 
>   -E         Erase the source file after a successful copy.
>   -T file    Use "file" as a temporary file that gets renamed into
>              each actual destination file.

Hmmm, might it not be better to have the -T option generate a temporary
file name for each file in the copy on its own? After all, it is
possible that a recursive copy might cross a mount point on the
destination system. And in any case it's one less error that the user
might make.

-- Kaelin