X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4CED2222.20800@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:33:06 +0100 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: scp just spews usage References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Am 24.11.2010 15:26, schrieb Benjamin Anderson: > Hi, > I've been using ssh with cygwin for years w/ no issues. After my last > upgrade, I am not able to use scp (ssh still works). > > $ scp myfile myusername@myserver:~ > usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file] > [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program] > [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2 > > This same command has worked for me for long time. Any ideas what's > happening now? (I have tried rebooting since the upgrade). Does it work without trailing tilde (~)? SCP/SSH will put you into the home directory by default anyways, so it's not strictly required. Are there blanks in any of the names? Then remember to quote the command properly from the shell. Is scp an alias? Find out with "type alias" when using bash. -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple