openssh unix dev - Jan 2008 - scp -q behavior different than documented

Hi

The man page says -q disables the progress meter, but it also disables
all other output.

$ scp -q badhost:/bin/ls .

$ scp badhost:/bin/ls . 
ssh: badhost: Name or service not known

I would like -q to disable the progress meter as documented (I don't see
the point of a -q flag if all it does is discards stderr, since I can
already do that with my shell), but you might prefer to update the man
page to reflect the current behavior instead.

Tested with openssh-4.7p1 on Fedora.

Thanks

Mike

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:18:22PM +1100, Mikel Ward
wrote:
> The man page says -q disables the progress meter, but it also
> disables all other output.
It would be great if you could file a bug in bugzilla for this, or
even provide a patch. :)


//Peter

Filed bug 1427
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427