scp does a local copy when ommiting :

[Christian Gut]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 00:05, Damien Miller wrote:
> > If you forget to add the : after the hostname you want to copy a file
> > to, then scp does a simple local copy. This is quiet confusing if you
> > dont notice it:
> > 
> > "scp foo.txt server.bar.com:" (copies the file to remote homedir)
> > "scp foo.txt server.bar.com" (creates the new file server.bar.com)
> > 
> > I don't know if this behaviour is intended or even needed, but if not I
> > would be glad if this could be fixed to prevent some mistakes.
> 
> This would be a major change to scp's argument parsing - something we
> don't want to do. I'm sure that there are scripts out there that depend
> on this behaviour (which derives from 20+ year old rcp).

Well, I nearly expected something like this. Its just so annoying.. But
thanks for your reply anyway.

-- 
Christian Gut <cycloon at is-root.org>
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