Re: run scp in background?

[Rob Mahurin <rob@utk.edu>]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:28:54PM -0800, Stonelx wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried this command:
> 
> scp /etc/file remotehost:/etc/file &
> 
> but when scp asks for the password, I'm actually
> back on the command line. (thus the scp command fails)
> Is there anyway around this? I would love
> to be able to run scp in the background.
> I looked at the man page, and see a flag -B ,
> but I don't quite get how that works.
> I basically want to remote shell into my server,
> run a scp command that may take serveral hours, but
> be able to let the scp take place while I exit the shell
> and go for lunch.

ssh has the -f option that does what you want, but that doesn't seem
to be enabled in scp.  See bug #131090.

Rob

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