diff --git a/doc/manual/mirror_file_sftp.sh b/doc/manual/mirror_file_sftp.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+USAGE="Usage: mirror_file_sftp.sh user@host local_path remote_path"
+
+# command line checks, bash
+if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
+        echo ${USAGE}
+        exit 0
+fi
+user_host=$1
+local_path=$2
+remote_path=$3
+
+echo Mirroring file ${local_path} to ${user_host}:${remote_path}
+
+# SFTP is very peculiar: recursive put only works for a single directory
+# note: does not work with sftp of OS X 10.11
+sftp ${user_host} << EOF
+  put ${local_path} ${remote_path}
+  quit
+EOF
+rm -rf tmp/${folder}
diff --git a/doc/manual/mirror_folder_sftp.sh b/doc/manual/mirror_folder_sftp.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+USAGE="Usage: mirror_folder_sftp.sh user@host local_path remote_path"
+
+# command line checks, bash
+if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
+        echo ${USAGE}
+        exit 0
+fi
+user_host=$1
+local_path=$2
+remote_path=$3
+
+echo Mirroring folder ${local_path} to ${user_host}:${remote_path}
+
+# SFTP is very peculiar: recursive put only works for a single directory
+# note: does not work with sftp of OS X 10.11
+folder=`basename ${remote_path}`
+path=`dirname ${remote_path}`
+rm -rf tmp
+mkdir tmp
+cp -r ${local_path} tmp/${folder}
+sftp ${user_host} << EOF
+  mkdir ${remote_path}
+  put -r tmp/${folder} ${path}
+  quit
+EOF
+rm -rf tmp/${folder}