rsync --ignore-existing file1 user@server1:/dest/
rsync --ignore-existing file.to.upload user@server1.cyberciti.biz:/path/to/dest/
### add ssh, just in case ;) ###
rsync -e ssh --ignore-existing file.to.upload user@server1.cyberciti.biz:/path/to/dest/
rsync -avP --ignore-existing *.png user@server1.cyberciti.biz:/stoage/static/c/cyberciti.biz/images/
rsync --ignore-existing file1 /path/to/dest/

#!/bin/bash
# Purpose: Batch file uploader from my desktop to the remote server
# Author: nixCraft <www.cyberciti.biz> under GPL v2.x+
# -----------------------------------------------------------------
_server="server1.cyberciti.biz"
_user="nixcraft"
 
## static url mapping ##
_cdnbase="http://static.cyberciti.org/images"
 
_dest="/var/www/images/"
_cdnurls=""
_isuploaded=0
_files="$@"
## rsync args ##
_args="-aPv --ignore-existing"
## fail safe ##
[[ "$_files" == "" ]] && { echo "Usage: $0 file1.png file2.png"; exit 0; }
 
## Let us start uploading files. Bash for loop allows us to do a few more additional things, 
## but I am keeping it simple here for demo purpose
for i in $_files
do
        # make sure $i file exist #
        if [ -f "$i" ]
        then
                rsync "$_args" "$i" ${_user}@${_server}:${_dest}
                _cdnurls="${_cdnurls}\n${_cdnbase}/${i##*/}"
                _isuploaded=1
        else
                echo "Error $i file not found."
        fi
done
 
if [ $_isuploaded -eq 1 ]
then
        echo "CDN urls:"
        echo -e "$_cdnurls"
        echo 
fi

./script foo.png
./script foo.png bar.png
./script *.mov
./script test.gif

sending incremental file list
test-image.gif
         950 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
 
sent 1053 bytes  received 31 bytes  197.09 bytes/sec
total size is 950  speedup is 0.88
CDN urls:
 
http://static.cyberciti.org/images/test-image.gif

./script test.gif

sending incremental file list
 
sent 60 bytes  received 12 bytes  13.09 bytes/sec
total size is 950  speedup is 13.19
CDN urls:
 
http://static.cyberciti.org/images/test-image.gif