Nope, the "." was not part of the command line.
It is a period, indicating the end of an English sentence.
Admittedly computerese is slowly deteriorating grammar, but it is still
the custom to use periods.
Gary
Micah Anderson wrote:
> Subject: Re: sftp woes
>
> It is probably going to do this if you include the dot at the end of
that
> line (which means current directory)...
>
> Micah
>
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:19:54PM -0400, Gary Strahan wrote:
> >
> > I was just using sftp (ssh-2.2.0) on two SGIs to transfer a couple of
> > files. I changed directories using "cd" and "lcd" and typed
> > get file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 .
> > Unfortunately, sftp decided that I wanted all of the files in the
*entire*
> > directory! It transfered about 20 files and over-wrote some existing
ones
> > before I could stop it.
> >
> > How long a file list can sftp handle? This has worked for for me in
the
> > past when I have transferred 2 or 3 files, so I suspect has to do with
the
> > allowed character length allowed for the command.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gary
>
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> Micah Anderson
> Collective Technologies
> www.colltech.com
>
> "To be and not to do is not to be at all"
>-- End of excerpt from Micah Anderson
