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Replace scp entirely
Authored by: VxJasonxV on Mon, Jul 14 2008 at 1:09PM PDT

If you're never worried about using scp itself, I'm fairly sure you <em>can</em> alias straight over the scp command.

alias scp="rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh"

Anytime you run scp from that point forward, it should instead execute rsync.

Replace scp entirely
Authored by: VxJasonxV on Mon, Jul 14 2008 at 1:11PM PDT

And of course, I left the post mode on Plain Old Text.

*sigh*

Defeated Again.