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| author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-01-31 20:06:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-01-31 20:06:51 +0000 |
| commit | 4af9aa25380a897b1b8cd7e1577644229b57aea0 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ba398253eaa8b38af68fa1f8e5f84ecb997ff37 /usr.bin | |
| parent | 61698e74d867e8af2db634f65aea385cce4c106b (diff) | |
explain how to handle local file names containing colons;
requested by Tamas TEVESZ
ok dtucker
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/ssh/scp.1 | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/scp.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/scp.1 index 46b72eda333..7122fa40f39 100644 --- a/usr.bin/ssh/scp.1 +++ b/usr.bin/ssh/scp.1 @@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ .\" .\" Created: Sun May 7 00:14:37 1995 ylo .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.43 2008/01/19 19:25:50 djm Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: scp.1,v 1.44 2008/01/31 20:06:50 jmc Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 19 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 31 2008 $ .Dt SCP 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -56,9 +56,15 @@ Unlike will ask for passwords or passphrases if they are needed for authentication. .Pp -Any file name may contain a host and user specification to indicate +File names may contain a user and host specification to indicate that the file is to be copied to/from that host. -Copies between two remote hosts are permitted. +Local file names can be made explicit using absolute or relative pathnames +to avoid +.Nm +treating file names containing +.Sq :\& +as host specifiers. +Copies between two remote hosts are also permitted. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds |