Openssh server detect file transfer finished

[Peter Stuge]

Jochen Bern wrote:
> (*) E.g., a la "uuencode tempfile < sourcefile | ssh user at host "uudecode
> && mv tempfile finalfile", not that I'd *recommend* such an approach ...

ssh is 8-bit clean so no need for uuencode. One could:

ssh user at host 'f=`mktemp`; cat > "$f" && mv "$f" finalfile || rm "$f"' < srcfile

..or use a tool on top of ssh, like rsync, which does this and more.


//Peter