Possibility of scp --interactive option

[Jochen Bern]

On 01.02.25 22:30, Christoph Groth wrote:
> An --interactive option that behaves just like the one in cp would solve
> the issue for me.  I would happily alias scp to scp --interactive.  Is
> there any technical or other reason why scp does not have such an option
> or something similar?

Seeing that (the PUT command in) sftp doesn't have such an option, 
either, I suspect that it might indeed be a protocol issue.

However, one question, in case the protocol *does* allow for such an 
option: What do you propose should happen when an "scp --interactive" 
runs into one of the cases where scp has to fall back from the SFTP 
protocol to ye olde scp/rcp mechanisms? Ignore the option (and silently 
overwrite files), bug out with a fatal "not supported by server", ... ?

Kind regards,
-- 
Jochen Bern
Systemingenieur

Binect GmbH
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