Yes, but there was a bug! The manual example was not working. Actually I finally found the bug:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41090 It is due to jsch 0.1.30 On 5/1/07, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/scp.html <!-- copy local dir to remote dir --> <scp todir="user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/chuck/"> <fileset dir="src_dir"/> </scp> M-- This email message and any files transmitted with it contain confidential information intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is addressed. If you have received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or email and destroy the original message without making a copy. Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean-Noël Rivasseau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:52 AM Subject: Probable bug found: scp task does not handle correctly directories containing subdirectories > Hi, I posted this on the user list but noone answered, I have better luck > here. > > I am using Ant 1.6.5 and Ant 1.7 on Gentoo Linux amd64, and the same > behavior appears. > > When using the scp task, I cannot copy a directory that contains > subdirectories. When copying a directory that has no subdirectories, > things > work fine, but any directory with subdirs in it will cause the scp task to > hang. > > By hang, I mean that the scp task when Ant is loaded from the command line > never finishes. > > Should a bug report be filed? Is this normal behavior? > > My code: > > <scp todir="[EMAIL PROTECTED] :/home/elvanor/test/" port="23" > keyfile="${user.home}/.ssh/id_rsa" passphrase="" verbose="true"> > <fileset dir="build/WEB-INF/classes" includes="**/*" /> > </scp> > > Note that there are no errors related to authentication or whatever. Just > changing the fileset dir attribute to some directory that has no > subdirectories makes the whoile thing work perfectly. > > Jean-Noël >