> It doesn't support some things like resuming a file, but it could ... and if pigs could fly.. It could, but it doesn't, and openssh developers have made it q

> It doesn't support some things like resuming a file, but it could ... and if pigs could fly.. It could, but it doesn't, and openssh developers have made it quite clear they view scp as fundamentally broken and have no interest in improving it. Scripting sftp is, while doable, tedious compared to scp. Then again, rsync is scriptable as well and offers much more than scp.