Damien Miller wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, lars wrote: > >> Adding the -l argument to assign user name on sftp is done on ssh and makes >> the two more similar to use. The diff below is an illustraion of what might >> be done. > > No, -l is reserved for bandwidth limiting like scp's -l option. This should > be coming soon - I have a diff that just needs some debugging.
Excellent! At the risk of disturbing things, would there be a way to harmonize the arguments for ssh and sftp clients, in this case for designating the remote user? The arguments provide more or less an API for shell use. Uniformity can be an advantage here. When transferring a file (or files) it's convenient to cut-n-paste or rollback through the ksh history to the last ssh/sftp connection to the target host. Changing a few letters in the program name at the beginning of the line is easy. Scanning the line to make sure the syntax is correct is something, as a human- chauvinist, I would prefer to relegate to the computer. Regards /Lars
