[CentOS] scp -rp behavior(SOLVED)

[Jonathan Billings]

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 ?

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>