OpenSSH 5.4p1- scp sending extra "--"

[Belem,Karim]

Hi,

I found that in older versions of OpenSSH up to 5.3 when I type "scp  <user>@<machineIP>:<filename> ." internally the command sent to the <machineIP> is scp -f <filename> but with OpenSSH 5.4 the internal command is now scp -f -- <filename>.
I believe the same thing was propagated to OpenSSH 5.5 since the same thing was seen with it.
The problem is that the server side does not understand the new "--" before the filename.

Is there a workaround or a fix to avoid the "--" to be sent internally?

Thanks,
Karim 
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