openssh unix dev - Oct 2002 - scp removing the file after successful copy?

G'day,

Sorry for the intrusion, just wondering if there are any plans to add a -u
type option to scp like the commercial SSH's scp has, which removes
the file after a successful copy? (particularly when copying a remote file 
to local)

I was involved recently with a replacement of the commercial SSH with 
OpenSSH, and the lack of a -u option to scp caused some pain.

I did a quick search of this lists' archives, and I can see some comments
relating to this sort of functionality in the past, including some
patches, but it never seems to have made it into the mainstream release.

Can I make this a feature request?

regards

Andrew

Andrew Pollock wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> Sorry for the intrusion, just wondering if there are any plans to add a -u
> type option to scp like the commercial SSH's scp has, which removes
> the file after a successful copy? (particularly when copying a remote file 
> to local)
[snip]
> I did a quick search of this lists' archives, and I can see some
comments
> relating to this sort of functionality in the past, including some
> patches, but it never seems to have made it into the mainstream release.
scp is officially in maintenance mode, i.e. no new features. It is based 
on a 20+ year old protocol and codebase which we don't want to extend 
further.

wrt your request, it may be possible to script this using scp exit 
status (though I saw some emails that this may be unreliable).

sftp's exit status should be reliable for this sort of thing (if not 
file a bug), so "sftp blah remote: && rm -f blah" should work.

-d