On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:37:50PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I was just trying to copy a folder over with a colon in it's name. Of > course, scp thought that the colon was a hostname separator and responded > with "ssh: The: Name or service not known"
I ran into the same issue recently. You can work around it by adding a path component to the filename (see below). [EMAIL PROTECTED] scp ab:c sasami: ssh: ab: Name or service not known [EMAIL PROTECTED] scp ./ab:c sasami: ab:c 100% 1876 1.8KB/s 00:00 It could probably stand to be documented somewhere. ;-)
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