I'm using ssh 2.0.13 on solaris 2.6 and would like to do the following: scp /var/tmp/file:name desthost:/var/tmp Where file:name is a file e.g: $ ls -l /var/tmp total 403 -rw-rw-r-- 1 joe joe 409048 Jan 19 15:44 file:name scp2 interprets /var/tmp/file as a hostname and the copy fails. One possible (but much slower) work-around is the following: scp localhost:/var/tmp/file:name desthost:/var/tmp Is there another way to do this without renaming the file? Thanks, --Joe
