Proposed enhancement to scp

From: Steve Turner (bbqboyee_at_H2OlooWoodworks.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:23:06 GMT

How does one go about proposing an enhancement to a component of
OpenSSH? I would like to see an option added to scp that would cause
the creation of any non-existent directories leading up to the target
file. For example if I run the following command:

        scp -p file.dat remote:some/new/dir/file.dat

and any part of the "some/new/dir/" path does not exist, an error is
returned. I would like a new flag, say "-m" that would cause scp to
automatically create the missing directories without requiring a
separate "ssh remote mkdir -p some/new/dir/" invocation. Does that
sound palatable? In my circumstances I'd rather not resort to using
some other tool (like rsync). Thanks.

Darren Tucker wrote:
> Hi All.
> OpenSSH 3.8 and 3.8p1 have just been released. The release
> announcement can be found here:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=107764058601617
> 

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