scp remote path specification

[Frank Tobin]

mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org, at 21:08 -0600 on Tue, 19 Dec 2000, wrote:

    Is it supose to work?   Doing the above style scp on 1.2.x ssh.com version
    spits back "User Abort!" since the final resting spot of the file is not
    local.

I'll quote from the scp manpage (ssh version 2.2.0)

    Any file name may contain a host and user specification to
    indicate that the file is to be copied to/from that host.  Copies
    between two remote hosts are permitted.
    
rcp, similiarly:

    Rcp copies files between machines.  Each file or directory
    argument is either a remote file name of the form
    ``rname at rhost:path'', or a local file name (containing no `:'
    characters, or a `/' before any `:'s).


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