scp - skip a file while running

Question

I'm running scp and copying a folder from remote server, I'm running with -rl , so i see the files being copy, is it possible to skip current file some way?

Answer 1

use rsync instead, it will copy only the differences and you can exclude files or dirs

rsync -avP -e ssh --exclude=somefile --exclude=somedir ./localdir/ user@server:remotedir/