[PLUG] more scp weird stuff
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net
Sat Feb 10 00:34:50 UTC 2007
>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> writes:
>>>>> "Carla" == Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> writes:
Carla> Ew, this keeps getting weirder. Here's the whole deal: scp
Carla> -words [-1246BCpqrv ] [-c -file ... -cipher ] [-F -file
Carla> ... -ssh_config ] [-i -file ... -identity_file ] [-l -file
Carla> ... -limit ] [-o -file ... -ssh_option ] [-P -file ... -port ]
Carla> [-S -file ... -program ] Sm off [[user @ ] host1 : file1 ] Sm
Carla> on [... ] Sm off [[user @ ] host2 : file2 ] Sm on
Carla> What is Sm on/off? Smirnoff? Silent magpie? Sweet magnolia?
Russell> What system is this on. My "man scp" generates something
Russell> substantially different. That stuff looks like formatting
Russell> codes.
Yeah. Look at the raw man file:
$ zless /usr/share/man/man1/scp.1.gz
or substitute wherever yours lives:
[...]
.Sh NAME
.Nm scp
.Nd secure copy (remote file copy program)
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm scp
.Bk -words
.Op Fl 1246BCpqrv
.Op Fl c Ar cipher
.Op Fl F Ar ssh_config
.Op Fl i Ar identity_file
.Op Fl l Ar limit
.Op Fl o Ar ssh_option
.Op Fl P Ar port
.Op Fl S Ar program
.Sm off
.Oo
.Op Ar user No @
.Ar host1 No :
.Oc Ns Ar file1
.Sm on
.Op Ar ...
.Sm off
[...]
It appears your man is misformatting.
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Russell Senior, Secretary
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