bug in scp (OpenSSH)

[David Terrell]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:45:16AM -0700, Jason Stone wrote:
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> > > If you as a sysadmin want your naive users to see the progress bar, you
> > > can alias scp to "scp -l" (or whatever the option would be) in the default
> > > shell prefs, just as many admins alias rm to "rm -i"
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> > "If the person does not want to see it they can always alias scp to 'scp
> > -q'.."
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> Yes, but rcp doesn't take a "-q", so if I have my scripts call $RCP -q and
> $RCP is set to rcp, it doesn't go.

Then set $RCP to scp -q

You're making this more complicated than it needs to be.

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