To use scp on a Linux or Unix system and avoid overwriting an existing file, you can use the -n or --no-clobber option. This option prevents scp from overwriting existing files in the target directory.
Here’s an example of using scp with the -n option:
scp -n source_file user@target_host:target_directory
In this example, source_file is the file you want to copy, user is the username on the target host, target_host is the hostname or IP address of the target system, and target_directory is the directory on the target system where you want to copy the file.
If a file with the same name as source_file exists in target_directory, scp will not overwrite it, and instead will terminate the transfer with an error message.
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