This funcionality is currently the same as that of command line scp, which will also exit with a error status code under these conditions. There is no way to do what you want with the current implementation.
-Rob Anderson > -----Original Message----- > From: Wojciech Biela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 5:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: scp task fails when no files match > > > Hi, > > I hoped to find something on this in the mail archives, but I didn't. > Strange, I was pretty sure I'm not the first to run into this > ... anyway: > > I use scp to get files from a remote serwer to a local dir, the whole > script works fine until the remote dir is empty (i.e. the pattern > doesn't match any files to download), then it fails .. > > is there any way to make it just not do anything, just > siletly pass, the > scp "failonerror" attribute is not a good choise because I want > transmission problems to cause biuld errors, but an empty dir > should not > be considered an error. > > any ideas ? > > thanks in advance > > Best regards > Wojtek Biela > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >