HiddenStore option may be useful

[William Ahern]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 07:45:48AM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
<snip>
> Do you have control over the clients?  If so:
> 
> 3. Use sftp to upload the file with a temporary name then rename it when
> it's complete.  Something like this (untested):
> 
> sftp -b /dev/stdin server.example.com << EOD
> put myfile.txt .myfile.txt
> rename .myfile.txt myfile.txt
> EOD

Maybe this, in case clients could concurrently upload different versions of
the same files:

SUFFIX="$(hexdump -n8 -e '8/1 "%02X"' /dev/urandom)"

sftp -b /dev/stdin server.example.com <<EOD
put myfile.txt .myfile.txt.${SUFFIX}
rename .myfile.txt.${SUFFFIX} myfile.txt
EOD