scp recommendations

fionbarr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: scp recommendations by AndyZaft (Hermit) on Jul 30, 2010 at 19:15 UTC
I believe if you want to stay with core you will have to go with the `system("scp $from $to")` route. Otherwise Net::SFTP or Net::SCP is your best bet.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: scp recommendations by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 30, 2010 at 22:13 UTC
`system("scp", "--", $from, $to)` [download] unless you want to spend time converting $from and $to into shell literals.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: scp recommendations by salva (Canon) on Aug 01, 2010 at 19:19 UTC
That's not enough either as scp in order to run another scp as its slave in the remote side, calls ssh as... `system('ssh', 'scp', '-t', @args)` [download] But the SSH protocol accepts only a single command string, ssh joins everything in one line and the command arrives at the remote machine as... `system("scp -t @args")` [download] And it is called through the shell. That's why @args has to be escaped in order to avoid the remote shell doing unexpected things.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: scp recommendations by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 02, 2010 at 03:51 UTC
Re^5: scp recommendations by salva (Canon) on Aug 02, 2010 at 07:38 UTC
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Re^2: scp recommendations by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 31, 2010 at 00:38 UTC
Otherwise Net::SFTP or Net::SCP is your best bet There's also Net::SSH2, which works well, is actively maintained, and has no requirements other than the libssh2 C library. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^2: scp recommendations by salva (Canon) on Aug 01, 2010 at 19:28 UTC
Net::SFTP (and the related Net::SSH::Perl) is not being maintained anymore. Net::SCP does not support password authentication that surprisingly (or not) seems to be what most people want! Better alternatives are Net::OpenSSH (doesn't work on Windows), Net::SSH2 or Net::SCP::Expect.	[reply]