Need assistance on what "Keepuptodate" command do

Hi,

as per my knowledge keepmeuptodate command does the following things,

1) my local and sftp location will be constantly in synchronization
2) if one file got deleted on local the file gets deleted on server
3) if one file is added on local the file gets added on server
4) if one file got appended with extra information on local that file gets appended on sftp

and viceversa.

Please correct me if i am wrong or any of the above mentioned things cannot be done with the specified command

Thanks and Regards
Trinath

Correct. For 2) you need to add the -delete switch.

- delete remote

is this correct?

keepuptodate -delete [ <local directory> [ <remote directory> ] ]
See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scriptcommand_keepuptodate

Excellent job and thanks a lot :)

>>3) if one file is added on local the file gets added on server

And what happens when, let's imagine, both dirs are empty and the file is added to remote server?
Will it then be transferred to local folder?
If no - how I can achieve this goal?

MikeDe wrote:

And what happens when, let's imagine, both dirs are empty and the file is added to remote server?
Will it then be transferred to local folder?
If no - how I can achieve this goal?

The "keepuptodate" works local => server only. For opposite direction, you can use "synchronize" only.