Copy file/dir to remote server from local server

Copies the file/dir to the remote server from the local server. If the dst is a folder it will copy the file into that folder.

remote.copy.to(host, src, dst, options = NULL, delete = FALSE, stderr = FALSE)

Arguments

host

host structure to execute command on

src

local file/dir to copy

dst

remote file/dir to copy to

options

additional arguments to be passed to rsync command

delete

in case of local dir should all non-existent files be removed

stderr

should stderr be returned as well.

Value

output of command executed

Author

Rob Kooper

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  host <- list(name='geo.bu.edu', user='kooper', tunnel='/tmp/geo.tunnel')
  remote.copy.to(host, '/tmp/kooper', '/tmp/kooper', delete=TRUE)
} # }