On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:41:27PM +1100, Ben Leslie wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
> >
> > The beauty of open source shines through. A fellow worker
> > looked at the source code for the rcp parsing mechanism
> > and found that as long as a "/" preceeds the ":", then the
> > command thinks that ":" is part of a file name, and not a hostname
> > delimiter.
>
> Sorry, this is one thing that I find kinda of wrong. Yes it is good you
> have the source code and have been able to find the answer, however you
> _shouldn't_ have to do this. ...
RCP(1) UNIX Reference Manual RCP(1)
NAME
rcp - remote file copy
SYNOPSIS
rcp [-px] [-k realm] file1 file2
rcp [-px] [-r] [-k realm] file ... directory
DESCRIPTION
Rcp copies files between machines. Each file or directory argument is
either a remote file name of the form ``rname@rhost:path'', or a local
file name (containing no `:' characters, or a `/' before any `:'s).
...
> (PS. If you have made and submitted a patch to the documenation, then I will
> take it all back and admit it is a good thing (tm) ;)
it should probably be in the scp man page nowadays. Is it in
OpenSSH's scp man page, anyone?
Conrad.
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