Possible sub-project: put

[Charles Pritchard]

I just stumbled upon the sql sub-project for parallel, a wrapper for 
various command line sql utilities.

Today I found the need for a nice wrapper for the various copy 
utilities. Between wget, curl, rsync, scp and "mkdir", it'd be great to 
have a wrapper.

One of the more frustrating items with scp and rsync is that they don't 
create parent directories, so one must do: "[ssh remote] mkdir -p 
destination/path/file && rmdir destination/path/file" prior to scp.

Here's the kludge ssh-copy-id goes through:

{ eval "$GET_ID" ; } | ssh $1 "umask 077; test -d .ssh || mkdir .ssh ; 
cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys; test -x /sbin/restorecon && 
/sbin/restorecon .ssh .ssh/authorized_keys" || exit 1

vs a possible put command:

put ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ssh://remote:~/.ssh/authorized_keys

And for a local user, append and chown:
put -aU otheruser ~/.ssh/authorized_keys 
/home/otheruser/.ssh/authorized_keys

Anyway, it's a thought.

-Charles