Windows PuTTY PSCP command exclude files or folder not to be transferred to server

Question

How to exclude files or folder not to be transferred to server with Windows PuTTY PSCP command?

My command:

pscp -r -i "D:\my-key.ppk" D:\wamp\www\abc\* ec2-user@58.55.86.157:/var/www/html

It transfers all files and directories. I want to exclude some directory let's say runtime\ and its content.

I googled but no commands found.

Please help.

why don't u use `rsync` for this? It offers `include` and `exclude` flags — Nishant Singh, May 03 '16 at 09:22
FileZilla is one of the options for transferring files between different OSs. — AmirHossein Rezaei, Aug 07 '22 at 21:17

Martin Prikryl · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-03T10:37:28.610

The pscp does not have any filters. All you can do is to explicitly list all the other files and folders for upload, skipping the runtime.

pscp -r -i "D:\my-key.ppk" D:\wamp\www\abc\file1 D:\wamp\www\abc\file2 ... ec2-user@58.55.86.157:/var/www/html

Or use another SFTP/SCP client, which supports filters (exclude masks).

For example, with WinSCP scripting you can use this batch file (.bat):

winscp.com /command ^
    "open sftp://ec2-user@58.55.86.157/ -hostkey=""ssh-rsa ..."" -privatekey=""D:\my-key.ppk""" ^
    "put D:\wamp\www\abc\* /var/www/html/ -filemask=""| runtime\""" ^
    "exit"

References:

(I'm the author of WinSCP)

Windows PuTTY PSCP command exclude files or folder not to be transferred to server

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