Re: 0 byte file transfer problem in scp

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 05/08/05

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    Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 01:51:18 -0400

    On 7 May 2005 05:03:37 -0700, Sanjay
      <sanjay2kind@yahoo.com> wrote:
    >
    > I am using scp for file transfer. There is a problem with uploading 0
    > byte file. First time able to transfer file, when the file is not
    > available at target host, but afterwards it is not overwritting the
    > same file with 0 byte. It works fine with non-zero file size. Here only
    > file creation time differ. File permission is read,write. Do not show
    > error during scp too.
    >
    > scp test.dat uscp@host:./
    >
    > Can anyone tell the solution/problem here !!
    >
    ssh uscp@host touch test.dat
    { echo "rm test.dat"; echo "put test.dat" } | sftp uscp@host

    or upload a zip or tar.gz containing the zero byte file... 

    -- 
Test-tube babies shouldn't throw stones.
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