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scp wackiness

Posted Wednesday, January 11th 2006 @ 9:17AM

Here's something that has never made much sense to me.

hotsoup ~ > scp nonexistant_file root@example.com:
root@example.com's password: 
nonexistant_file: No such file or directory

Why does scp do all of the expensive networking and key exchange, only to tell you that your source file doesn't exist? The source is local, you'd think it would check that before doing anything else.

Am I missing something here? Or is this really silly?

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