Mark Dominik Bürkle
2021-Nov-06 16:05 UTC
scp: misleading error message "dirname-argument-with-/: Is a directory" when "dirname-argument-with-/" is not an existing directory
Hello, there are conditions when the scp error messages are misleading: user at target-host:~/tmp$ scp -p source-host:/tmp/openwrt-dmesg.txt dirname-argument-with-/ dirname-argument-with-/: Is a directory user at target-host:~/tmp$ touch dirname-argument-with- user at target-host:~/tmp$ scp -p source-host:/tmp/openwrt-dmesg.txt dirname-argument-with-/ dirname-argument-with-/: Is a directory user at target-host:~/tmp$ ll -d dirname-argument-with- -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 0 Nov 6 16:48 dirname-argument-with- user at target-host:~/tmp$ rm dirname-argument-with- user at target-host:~/tmp$ mkdir dirname-argument-with- user at target-host:~/tmp$ scp -p source-host:/tmp/openwrt-dmesg.txt dirname-argument-with-/ openwrt-dmesg.txt 100% 14KB 3.0MB/s 00:00 user at target-host:~/tmp$ sorry if duplicate, ATM there is no search on the listinfo page, I only get an empty page from http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&r=1&w=2 and I'm too lazy to fetch / extract / check the .txt.gz files from https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/ I hope thats ok with you. Kind regards, mdbuerkle -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_signature Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 203 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/attachments/20211106/4bc7c5d8/attachment.asc>