scp without known_hosts check

Solution 1:

scp is supposed to take the same command line options as ssh, try:

-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null

Maybe add -q to disable the warnings as well.

Solution 2:

For those of us who are less versed in Linux shorthand, the full syntax would look something like this:

scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -r $source $user@$host:$destination