It should work if you quote the ':' character with a '\' ... no need for the patch. Ced On 20 September 2016 at 17:35, Scott Neugroschl <scott_n@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoth Sam: > On Windows, “scp C:/foo/bar remotehost:” will attempt to connect to a remote host “C” > and access file “/foo/bar”. There is currently no syntax or flag to allow copying files that start with a drive name. > > This patch changes the behaviour (only on Cygwin) by considering that a single letter followed by a colon is a Windows drive name and thus an absolute path. This is also more consistent with the manual page that recommends to use absolute pathnames “to avoid scp treating file names containing ‘:’ as host specifiers”. > ----------------------- > > Is this really necessary? Especially since it's a Cygwin specific patch, what is wrong with simply using /cygdrive/C/foo/bar? > > > _______________________________________________ > openssh-unix-dev mailing list > openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@xxxxxxxxx> [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] Institute Pasteur _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
