[PATCH] Allow scp to copy files that start with a Windows drive name.

Sam Hocevar sam at hocevar.net
Wed Nov 23 11:09:37 AEDT 2016


On Tue, Sep 20, 2016, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> On Windows, “scp C:/foo/bar remotehost:” will attempt to connect to
> a remote host “C” and access file “/foo/bar”. There is currently no
> syntax or flag to allow copying files that start with a drive name.

   Any comments on this patch maybe? Right now it is impossible to do
“scp 'C:\foo\bar' remotehost:” on Windows.

Regards,
-- 
Sam.


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