https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3437
Bug ID: 3437 Summary: implement ssh’s -G for sftp and scp Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: v9.0p1 Hardware: Other OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: Miscellaneous Assignee: unassigned-b...@mindrot.org Reporter: cales...@scientia.org Hey. My understanding is that ssh’s -G option acts like a --dry-run (in the sense that it can be used jointly with any other valid options to ssh) + printing out the settings. As mentioned in #3436, this makes -G great for other programs to parse ssh_config without having to deal with any format changes/extensions there or with going through the Host/Match blocks. It would be nice if the same option was added to sftp and scp. Assuming one has an arbitrary sftp/scp command line (that one wants to have parsed, with options from ssh_config), one cannot simply replace sftp/scp with ssh, where -G already exists, because sftp/scp have several options and other arguments that don't work with ssh. So one would need to implement some command line parsing to adapt to that and use ssh instead. Much simpler would be if sftp/scp had the same options. Thanks, Chris. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. _______________________________________________ openssh-bugs mailing list openssh-bugs@mindrot.org https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-bugs