How to scp one file to remote using drush?

Question

I'd like to send one file to remote host which is defined as alias in drush.

The file is actually private ssh key, so it needs to be placed in ~/.ssh.

I've tried the following command:

drush -v rsync conf/my_rsa @remote:~/.ssh/

but then it's saying:

You will destroy data from drush@remote:'/var/www/~/.ssh/'

I don't want to destroy any existing data in my ~/.ssh.

Any workaround to that?

Answer 1

I've found the following workaround useful:

cat my_rsa | drush @remote ssh "cat > ~/.ssh/my_rsa"

It'll send content of the file directly via ssh into the file.