scp: Problem when source and destination are identical

[Markus Friedl]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:23:52PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:07:28PM -0500, Jim Knoble wrote:
> > What i would much rather see is for the destination scp to write the
> > incoming file to a temporary file in the same directory, and then
> > rename() it to the destination file on a successful copy.
> 
> Strongly seconded.  But Markus doesn't seem to like it, for no other
> reason than "you can use tar/mv/rsync to do this".

no, the reason is: scp == rcp