Package: openssh-client Version: 1:10.0p1-7+deb13u1 Severity: wishlist While recursively copying from a remote computer via, say, scp -rp user@remote_host:./directory . , we see file names printed, but not subdirectory names. This leads the user to guess how much is done and how much is left in total. It gets worse if there are many files with identical names living in different subdirectories. A typical example is copying huge .thunderbird folders with many e-mail accounts—then the user sees pages of similar entries such as INBOX DraftBox.msf msgFilterRules.dat … (with sizes) for hours all over again, without knowing which of the subdirectories these files belong to, which subdirectories have already been copied, and which are still left. I suggest that the full known suffixes get printed (by default or when the switch "-v" is provided); in the above example, these would be .thunderbird/8_letters_and_digits.default-default/ImapMail/imap.servername.com/INBOX .thunderbird/8_letters_and_digits.default-default/ImapMail/imap.servername.com/DraftBox.msf .thunderbird/8_letters_and_digits.default-default/ImapMail/imap.servername.com/msgFilterRules.dat … Note that the switch "-v" currently doesn't do this, and the manpage of scp is of no help here. Gratefully!
