linux - Does scp create the target folder if it does not exist

Question

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Answer 1

To achieve the task with ssh and scp (instead of rsync):

Solution

Lets break into 2 steps :

1. Create directory if missing:

ssh [email protected] "mkdir -p /data/install/somefolder"

2. Copy to it:

scp -r /data/install/somefolder [email protected]:/data/install/somefolder

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Put them together

server="[email protected]"
destiny="/data/install/somefolder"
src="/data/install/somefolder"
ssh "$server" "mkdir -p $destiny" && scp -r "$src" "$server:$destiny"