Re: [tlug] scp: how to overwrite 444 protected files

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 02:08:13PM +0900, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> Thanks for the reply!
> 
> rsync is the first tool I tried but unfortunately it's not working
> with the remote server (rsync: Command not found ...). Which is why I
> turned to scp but now have this 444 issue.

Tar is probably available on the remote side?
So give this a try:

$ tar cf - file|(ssh remotehost "tar xvf -")


Christian