I abort scp, how do I clean up?

brian_p_sully · 01-03-2008, 01:58 PM

I am programaticly scp'ing a large file between two servers. For a variety of reaons (such as low disk space) this process can be aborted. When the scp client is killed the destination retains a partially transferred file. Since the file is incomplete I would like it to be automatically deleted. Is there a simple way to do this? I didn't seen any intuitive options on the scp man page.

anomie · 01-03-2008, 03:25 PM

There is probably a more proper way, but here is one idea:

Code:

$ scp bigfile user@host:~ || ssh user@host rm bigfile

(bash shell obviously.)