scp, when copying directories with the "-r" flag, uses the same
"trailing
slash" syntax as rsync, i.e., if a trailing slash is given on the source
directory, it will copy the contents of that directory to the destination,
instead of the directory itself.
rsync has a special section in the man page that points out that this is
actually expected behavior, it would be nice if scp also had this information
in the man page.
I've attached a patch for scp.1 which I believe addresses the issue.
Thanks,
--Adam
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--- scp.1.orig Tue Sep 4 12:32:55 2001
+++ scp.1 Tue Sep 4 12:42:19 2001
@@ -71,7 +71,9 @@
Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the
original file.
.It Fl r
-Recursively copy entire directories.
+Recursively copy entire directories. A trailing slash (/) on a source file
+name means "copy the contents of this directory". Without a trailing
slash
+it means "copy the directory and all of its contents".
.It Fl v
Verbose mode.
Causes
