Password on command line with SCP

[Jeff Royle]

Don O'Neil wrote:
> Is there any way to pass the password for an SCP command via the command
> line as a switch? I'd like to embed SCP in a script and pass the password
> once through a command line input from the master script... By defauly any
> time I use the -B mode it says passwords are required, and without -B it
> asks for the password after the command starts to execute.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> _______________________________________________

The only way I know of is to use keys for your authentication.

You then can use 'scp -B -i <somekeyfile> file1 file2 ... example.com:.'

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Jeff