scp does a local copy when ommiting :

[Damien Miller]

Dan Kaminsky wrote:

> Compromise -- could we set an environment variable to disable 
> self-copies like this?  I've made this error hundreds of times.

we don't want to add knobs and buttons either.

Help finish off sftp if you want a sane replacement, it just needs:

- recursive operations
- a better commandline parser (e.g. that supports local->remote copies)

-d