On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:44:52AM -0400, Dan Farrell wrote: > Wait, so every time documentation is inaccurate or incomplete or simply > not to your liking, you're going to call it a bug
``incorrect documentation is a bug'' --http://www.openbsd.org/papers/opencon06-culture.pdf > (of the application no less!)? He never said it was the application's fault, just that `file1', `file2', ... are shell expanded by the remote host, but the documentation does not point this out. How about something like below? (I don't love the wording, but hopefully it's a start.) Index: scp.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/ssh/scp.1,v retrieving revision 1.40 diff -u -r1.40 scp.1 --- scp.1 18 Jul 2006 07:56:28 -0000 1.40 +++ scp.1 12 Apr 2007 15:47:32 -0000 @@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ .Pp Any file name may contain a host and user specification to indicate that the file is to be copied to/from that host. +The file name component of such an argument is also passed +to the specified host's login shell for expansion and splitting. Copies between two remote hosts are permitted. .Pp The options are as follows:
