Script to copy a number of files to a remote host using SFTP. Files are first copied to have a leading dot in the filename and then remotely renamed to their real name. This is useful when large files are copied, a remote process waits for them, it should not "see" unfinished files and it follows the convention to ignore files with a leading dot…

sftp-cp.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# Script to copy a number of files to a remote host using SFTP. Files are first
# copied to have a leading dot in the filename and then remotely renamed to
# their real name. This script creates the input for the 'sftp' command.
#
# Usage:
# sftp-cp * | sftp user@host:/target/directory

for each in "$@"; do
        echo "put \"$each\" \".$each\""
        echo "rename \".$each\" \"$each\""
done