Undocumented sftp put -r quirk: Couldn't canonicalize: No such file or directory

[Iain Morgan]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 13:45:48 +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, Parke wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As of OpenSSH 6.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 (package version 1:6.5p1-6), there
> > appears to be an undocumented requirement for the sftp "put -r"
> > command.  In order to "put -r foo", a remote directory named "foo"
> > must already exist.
> 
> Could you file a bug for this at https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/ ?
> 
> IMO the directory should be created if it doesn't exist, just like
> "cp -r" does.
> 

Actually, bz#2150 already exists regardint this issue.

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Iain Morgan