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 ? -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>