Inclue scp support in rclone

Feature
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Hello,
I'm currently looking into the rclone documentation and noticed there is no support for scp. Is there any plan to include this in a feature release? If it is not planed to be included what features does rclone currently miss what scp can offer?

Thanks a lot for the help.

Kind regards,
Thorsten

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hello and welcome to the forum,

there is a huge backlog of requests to add new protocols/providers
you are welcome to open an issue at https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues

tho rclone supports sftp

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Thank you for your quick respponse.

I have been closer looking into the differences between rclone and scp. So far rclone sftp offers a lot which makes scp obsolent.

Here is a mapping overview:

  • scp -c cipher ----> rclone --sftp-use-insecure-cipher (Not recommended)
  • scp -F ssh_config ----> no support to read any ssh_config file and seems to complicated to implement
  • scp -i identity_file ----> rclone --sftp-pubkey-file
  • scp -l limit -----> rclone --sftp-chunk-size
  • scp -o ssh_option ----> no support to read any ssh_config file and seems to complicated to implement
  • scp -P port ----> rclone --sftp-port
  • scp -p preserve modification time ----> Will be preserved by default? But could be set --sftp-set-modtime
  • scp -r recursive .----> rclone does recurisve copies by default. Can be enable for ls via -R
  • scp -S program -----> rclone --sftp-subsystem
  • scp -v verbose ----> rclone --verbose or -vv

Did I miss anything? Since ssh config files or ssh options are in general not supported are there some features in rclone which compensate some of the configuration options?

Kind regrads,
Thorsten

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Note that the scp protocol is being phased out :

That's rhel but I think I read that it's coming from the openssh project.

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