Copying files to remote and creating directories and recursive copying

I am using SSH.NET to copy files using an ScpClient. This works fine. However, if I want to copy files to a destination that doesn't exist yet, there doesn't seem to be a way create the destination path. I am thinking this is so because it's a limitation of SCP itself.

Is there a way around this, or do I need to use an SshClient to first mkdir any necessary paths?

Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to copy files recursively (-r flag), but rather, I must copy files individually. Is that the case as well?

Edit: There is ScpClient.Upload() that takes in a source and destination path, so that can be done.

The documentation on the SSH.NET github page is pretty limited.

Solution

First, if you have SCP, you most likely have SFTP too. SFTP and SCP both typically come with an SSH server. So if you have SFTP too, use that, as SFTP is a complete protocol that supports not only file transfers (unlike SCP) but also all other file operations, like directory creation.

Alternatively, as you have found out, if you have a shell access (what is also rather common, if you have SCP access), use shell commands for creating the directly (that is mkdir on Linux shells).