bug in scp (OpenSSH)

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Jason Stone wrote:

> Yes, but rcp doesn't take a "-q", so if I have my scripts call $RCP -q and
> $RCP is set to rcp, it doesn't go.
> 
> This is the first response that I've seen from one of the
> maintainers/developers on this matter, and it still doesn't address the
> issue - are you going to consider taking out the progress bar or at least
> making it default to off?  And if you aren't going to take it out, are you
> going to consider putting in any of the other good patches to scp that
> have been posted?

scp only displays the progress meter is stderr is a tty. How does this
cause problems?

-d

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