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LeWeir Guest

How to synchronize remote one single file, please help me.

2023-10-25 16:54

How to synchronize remote one single file from local directory C:\ to remote directory /, please help me.

I trial and error hours and still cant make it work, I've tried

option include test.txt
synchronize remote -preview "C:\" "/"

synchronize remote -filemask=_qw.txt -preview "C:\" "/"

but the WinSCP STILL compare all the folders and files in C:\, why...?

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: How to synchronize remote one single file, please help me.

2023-10-26

Your scripts synchronize all files with given names, anywhere on the C:\ drive.
If you do not want to synchronize subfolders, see:
How do I transfer (or synchronize) directory non-recursively?
The the final script will be like:

synchronize remote -filemask=_qw.txt|*/ -preview "C:\" "/"

The same can also be achieved with put -neweronly:

put -neweronly C:\_qw.txt /

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LeWeir Guest

Re: How to synchronize remote one single file, please help me.

2023-10-26 14:31

Thank you so much sir. You're a lifesaver, but I have one more question, I know I can use

synchronize remote -filemask=A.txt;B.txt|*/ "C:\" "/"

to sync A.txt and B.txt files. But how about a file A.txt with a directory called my_folder?

I tried

synchronize remote -filemask=A.txt;my_folder/|*/ "C:\" "/"

and

synchronize remote -filemask=A.txt;my_folder\|*/ "C:\" "/"

but it didn't work. :(

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LeWeir Guest

Re: How to synchronize remote one single file, please help me.

2023-10-26 14:41

But if the feature is not supported then I will just use put with -neweronly argument as your suggestion, but the stdout still output even WinSCP didnt sync anything is kind of weird :|
Anyway. I love WinSCP already, it's super useful for me rn. :) Starred WinSCP!

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: How to synchronize remote one single file, please help me.

2023-10-30

What do you mean by "with a directory"? Do you mean "in a directory"?
This should do (i.e., drop the |*/):

synchronize remote -filemask=A.txt;my_folder/ "C:\" "/"

Or simply:

synchronize remote -filemask=A.txt|*/ "C:\my_folder" "/my_folder"

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