As a fairly experienced Unix user, it's obvious to me that scp copies files
from left to right -- that is, that the last [host:]file on the command line
is the destination. However, this might not be so obvious to users with
less experience. It pains me to suggest this, but perhaps the scp man page
should be edited to make this more obvious. For example, from the [Free]BSD
cp(1) man page:
SYNOPSIS
cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] source_file target_file
cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] source_file ...
target_directory
DESCRIPTION
In the first synopsis form, the cp utility copies the contents of the
source_file to the target_file. In the second synopsis form, the
contents of each named source_file is copied to the destination
target_directory.
Eric
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Eric van Gyzen Sr. Systems Programmer
http://www.stat.duke.edu/~vangyzen/ ISDS, Duke University
