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Last Updated: 2024-11-21
I had a deploy script, run from project root, which executed this command:
$ scp -r ./public $server_ip:/myapp/public
The result was that the files in ./public locally ended up in
/myapp/public/public (double public) on the server.
The fix: assume a folder with source folder name will be created on server
$ scp -r ./public $server_ip:/myapp/