On Tue, Sep 20, 2016, Cedric Blancher wrote: > It should work if you quote the ':' character with a '\' ... Nope, it doesn’t. There is nothing in colon() that handles such syntax. Escaping ‘:’ with a ‘\’ will just cause scp to try to connect to hostname “c\” instead of “c”. > no need for the patch. I humbly disagree. Cheers, -- Sam. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev