file name handling "bug" in scp?

[Darren Tucker]

Evaldo Gardenali wrote:
> I think I found a small filename handling issue in scp:
> 
> evaldo at winston:~$ scp evaldo at 127.0.0.1:test-\`whoami\`-test .
> Password:
> scp: test-evaldo-test: No such file or directory
> evaldo at winston:~$ scp evaldo at 127.0.0.1:test-\`echo\ foo\`-test .
> Password:
> scp: test-foo-test: No such file or directory
> evaldo at winston:~$

I don't follow, what did you expect?  Do the files "test-evaldo-test" 
and "test-foo-test" exist?

It behaves consistly with what I'd expect (remember: the shell expansion 
occurs twice: once by the client's shell and once by the server's).

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