Re: [savannah-help-public] sftp access to download area in Savannah

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hi Bob,

Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Now that sftp has been disabled, what is the recommended method to delete a
> > file? Could someone, please, document it in
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/DownloadArea/ ?
>
> That is an excellent question.  And I don't know an answer to it.  But
> I agree completely.  I will add it to the to-do list.

Thanks for the answer. I have found this[1], that boils down to:

rsync -rv --delete --include=foo.txt '--exclude=*' /home/user/ 
address@hidden:/home/user/

or

ssh address@hidden "rm /home/user/foo.txt"

The rsync method seems risky, and the ssh method does not seem to work.

[1] 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/505289/using-rsync-to-delete-a-single-file


Best regards,
Antonio.