Can scp be used to update a directory?

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• Subject: Can scp be used to update a directory?
• From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:21:39 +0000
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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.

Anne

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