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From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To: Peter Brezny <peter@skyrunner.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: scp odd behavior
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in message <NEBBIGLHNDFEJMMIEGOOKEFEEIAA.peter@skyrunner.net>, 
wrote Peter Brezny thusly...
>
> 
> These two seemingly identical statements are giving different results.
> 
> the first scp command copies the data in the htdocs filder and puts it in
> the data directory
> the second scp command creates an htdocs director in the data directory.
> 
> scp -i /bkup/.ssh/identity -r -q user@host1.com:/usr/local/htdocs/
> /home/www/data/

> scp -i /bkup/.ssh/identity -r -q user@host2.com:/usr/local/htdocs/
> /home/www/data/
> 
> What have i missed?


do you correctly remember specifying the last "/" after "htdocs"?

i have not yet come across the problem as i always specify the last
"/" if i need only the contents of a directory copied.

it may or may not help further... rsync copies directory _and_ its
contents if the last slash is missing from the source path (on the
target).  otherwise it copies only the contents.  compare...

  rsync /tmp/ $HOME/tmp
  rsync /tmp $HOME/tmp


 - parv


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