Is there a way to force copy in ssh?

When i use the mv command it give me the same error

right now i am moving the file away and then copying it...

ssh casper@172.29.81.95 "mv /home/casper/clearing/clearing.txt /tmp/"

"the same file"

If this is a hard link then it is in fact "the same file" and there is no need to copy from one to the other.

Run "ls -l /home/casper/clearing/" if you see a number higher than 1 in the second column (between mode and owner) then the file is a hard link. If you run "ls -i" on both files they should show the same inode number if they are the same.

Are you doing this copy after updating /home/clearing.txt? If the other one is a hard link to this one then there is no reason to do the copy at all. Any changes to the first one are also changes to the second one as they ARE "the same file".

it is a file of the same name, however it is updated daily.
i am working on maybe getting some rsync going so I dont have to transfer the whole file just the changes.

until then I am using keyed ssh to mv the file, then copy the file.

if the file is there, it will not copy.

i wan to force an overwrite over ssh

You're not transferring a file with the above - you're ssh'ing into the other machine then doing a local copy on it.

You'd need to use scp rather than cp to "copy" from one machine to another. Of course you can also do rsync for such copies. If you type "man scp" and "man rsync" you can see options including those for overwriting if the file is already there. However, one of the main benefits of rsync is to only copy those things that don't already exist - thereby saving network bandwidth.

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