= Net::SCP

* http://net-ssh/rubyforge.org/scp

== DESCRIPTION:

Net::SCP is a pure-Ruby implementation of the SCP protocol. This operates over SSH (and requires the Net::SSH library), 
and allows files and directory trees to copied to and from a remote server.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

* Transfer files or entire directory trees to or from a remote host via SCP
* Can preserve file attributes across transfers
* Can download files in-memory, or direct-to-disk
* Support for SCP URI's, and OpenURI

== SYNOPSIS:

In a nutshell:

  require 'net/scp'

  # upload a file to a remote server
  Net::SCP.upload!("remote.host.com", "username",
    "/local/path", "/remote/path",
    :password => "password")

  # download a file from a remote server
  Net::SCP.download!("remote.host.com", "username",
    "/remote/path", "/local/path",
    :password => password)

  # download a file to an in-memory buffer
  data = Net::SCP::download!("remote.host.com", "username", "/remote/path")

  # use a persistent connection to transfer files
  Net::SCP.start("remote.host.com", "username", :password => "password") do |scp|
    # upload a file to a remote server
    scp.upload! "/local/path", "/remote/path"

    # upload from an in-memory buffer
    scp.upload! StringIO.new("some data to upload"), "/remote/path"

    # run multiple downloads in parallel
    d1 = scp.download("/remote/path", "/local/path")
    d2 = scp.download("/remote/path2", "/local/path2")
    [d1, d2].each { |d| d.wait }
  end

  # You can also use open-uri to grab data via scp:
  require 'uri/open-scp'
  data = open("scp://user@host/path/to/file.txt").read

For more information, see Net::SCP.

== REQUIREMENTS:

* Net::SSH 2

If you wish to run the tests, you'll also need:

* Hoe
* Mocha

== INSTALL:

* gem install net-scp (might need sudo privileges)

Or, you can do it the hard way (without Rubygems):

* tar xzf net-scp-*.tgz
* cd net-scp-*
* ruby setup.rb config
* ruby setup.rb install (might need sudo privileges)

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2008 Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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