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I need to copy file somefile.jar from local computer (cygwin) to remote server.local. I have an ssh login corp to server.local that a sudoer on server.local. I need to place the file to folder /opt/alice/libs/ owned by another user:

[corp@server.local ~]$ ls -ld /opt/alice/libs

drwxr-xr-x 2 alice alice 12288 Apr 13 11:09 /opt/alice/libs

I cannot direct upload file to chosen directory because of insufficient rights. So, my way to copy has few steps with /tmp/ on server.local

$ scp ./somefile.jar corp@server.local/tmp/

$ ssh copr@server.local

Last login: Thu Apr 12 18:05:41 2018 from 192.168.87.34



[corp@server.local ~]$ sudo chown alice:alice /tmp/somefile.jar

[corp@server.local ~]$ sudo -u alice mv /tmp/somefile.jar /opt/alice/libs/

Is there a shorter way to perform the upload?

If a tool does not exist to achieve my purposes, maybe it is possible to make a *.sh script that include all of these operations?

If you want to do a simple script, assuming your sudo does not need a password, you could pipe the data across:

tar cf - ./somefile.jar | 

ssh -t copr@server.local sudo -u alice tar xf - -C /opt/alice/libs/

The -C changes directory before extracting the file. If your tar does not have this, add an explicit cd /opt/alice/libs/ first.

That is most likely the only way to do that.