Erase the source file open; specify a tempfile name option

[Jos Backus]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 06:29:03PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:39:49PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> >   scp file remote:file.tmp
> >   ssh remote mv file.tmp file
> 
> you can do
> 	cat file | ssh remote 'cat - > file.tmp && mv file.tmp file'
> instead.
 
This works for one file. What if you want to move multiple files to a remote
directory and replace those files atomically? Wayne's suggestions would let
you do that easily.

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