scp: Problem when source and destination are identical

[Ed L Cashin]

Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> writes:

...
> The Unix way is "give 'em a choice" - which is exactly what the switch 
> is good for.

You misrepresent things!  The UN*X way is that each tool should be
simple and do one thing well, then the choice is in picking the tools
and putting them together however you want.

Making feature-laden, buggy software that tries to do everything in
order to appear powerful is not UN*X-ish at all.

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