OT: using pscp to *move* files

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:18:24 -0400):
[...]
> Non-atomicity: I can't just have teh windows side say "delete
> everything" after I've grabbed everything, as I'll end up with a race
> condition -- if the Unix side drops a new packet, it will get eaten.

Yes, my first thought was ftp's "mget" followed by "mdel", but that
wouldn't work if a new file appeared.

[...]
> So I need either a -d option to pscp (which doesn't appear to exist),
> *or* I need to punt and go back to figuring out why Samba stopped
> working between these two boxes (at which point I can go back to a
> drive letter and ren).

Can't you use pscp to get a directory listing, and then get/delete
the files one at a time?  That eliminates any race condition with new
files appearing after the gets.

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