Can scp be used to update a directory?

[John Summerfield]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 18 March 2006 15:27, Andy Green wrote:
> 
>>Anne Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>The scp man page is not very verbose ;-)  I want to copy a directory,
>>>recursively, over the lan, but only those files that are new or updated.
>>>MS-DOS could do this back in ...Ummm.... so I can't believe it can't be
>>>done in scp, but I can't see how to do it.
>>
>>Use rsync for such tasks.  It natively understands how to move files
>>over ssh.  Eg
>>
>>rsync -avz mysourcedir user at desthost:/path/on/destination
>>
>>will just update/transmit files changed in the source dir compared to
>>the destination.
>>
> 
> The reason I don't want to use rsync is, AIUI, rsync would delete files on the 
> remote box when they are deleted on the local one.  I don't want that to 
> happen.
> 

Clearly, you have not learned to read the documentation.