On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 10:58:30AM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
Why "slash": /.thunderbird in case of your example? Because if you do not specify absolute path beginning with / the ssh daemon prepends your relative path with its `pwd` it runs in, and its `pwd` is "/")
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here...
Are you saying that if I run 'scp remotehost:.bashrc ." it will copy /.bashrc from remotehost, regardless of whether my $HOME on remotehost is /home/username ?