On Sun, March 1, 2015 11:08 am, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> 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 ?
>
Well, I was wrong, and somebody already corrected the stupid idiot (me). I
forgot that the worker process is started as user=remote user with pwd=
user's home directory. So what I said about absolute path _necessary_ it
total nonsense. ;-( I guess I need more coffee in the morning on Sunday...
Valeri
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University of Chicago
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