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Oracle Solaris System Administration (MOSC)

Strange behavior from scp - What's going on?

Apr 3, 2012 7:46AM edited Apr 3, 2012 9:06AM in Oracle Solaris System Administration (MOSC) 1 commentAnswered ✓

Hello,
I feel like posting a dumb question, but I couldn't explain why scp is behaving similar to cp ?!

# /usr/bin/scp /var/opt/SUNWsasm/log/sasm.log user@remote <== Nothing happens; then I realized it's acting as cp
# ll
total 39
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19K Apr 3 15:40 user@remote

# which scp
/usr/bin/scp

# echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/sfw/bin::/opt/sfw/sbin:/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-880/rsc/:/etc/opt/SUNWconn/bin:/opt/SUNWswasr/bin

And this:

# which scp
/usr/bin/scp

# scp a b c
cp: cannot access a

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