Timeline for Interesting Secure Copy Behavior
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Aug 9, 2012 at 1:03 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 19:49 | comment | added | jsbillings | @degausser: no, if both the source and destination are local, it uses cp, but as far as scp knows, hostname:path is a remote path, which is why you saw what you did. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 18:29 | vote | accept | degausser | ||
| Aug 8, 2012 at 18:28 | vote | accept | degausser | ||
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| Aug 8, 2012 at 18:27 | comment | added | Claudio | If your goal is just making the copy, I can see no reason to go over the network for it :) | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 18:24 | history | edited | degausser | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited title |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 18:20 | comment | added | Claudio | scp -r /tmp/test /tmp/test, without any hostname references does seem to call cp indeed, as the error message is exactly the same as cp -r /tmp/test /tmp/test. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 18:19 | comment | added | degausser | @Claudio And there's absolutely no reason to scp something to yourself? | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 18:12 | comment | added | Claudio | I carried out a simple test and the behaviour with cp is different, as it doesn't allow to copy a directory over itself: $ cp -r /tmp/test /tmp/test (line break) cp: cannot copy a directory, ‘/tmp/test’, into itself, /tmp/test/test’. With the scp line you supplied an infinite recursion takes place. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 17:54 | comment | added | degausser | @jsbillings Is that still the case with the the syntax I added? | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 17:52 | history | edited | degausser | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 106 characters in body |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 17:38 | comment | added | jsbillings | If you supply local source and destinations, scp just calls cp. | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 17:35 | answer | added | Claudio | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 17:31 | comment | added | Claudio | Which switches did you use with scp? Do you have the full command line? | |
| Aug 8, 2012 at 17:23 | history | asked | degausser | CC BY-SA 3.0 |