Greetings,
One aspect of the recent sftp renovation which I don't recall being
discussed is its command-line argument processing.
In particular, the command-line syntax supports retrieving a file as
follows:
$ sftp hoastA:file1 file2
But it does not support a similar syntax to send a file. In other words,
$ sftp file1 hostA:file2
is not currently supported. Moreover, the following command does not do
what you might expect:
$ sftp hostA:file1 hostB:file2
Instead of transferring a file between hostB and hostA, it retrieves a
file from hostA to the local host and names it hostB:file2.
Are there any plans to addres this part of sftp's command-line syntax in
the near future. Since the stted goal is to make sftp a drop-in
replacement for scp, it would seem that these issues need to be
addressed at some point.
Thanks
--
Iain Morgan
