sftp bugs

Matthieu Moy Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr
Thu Dec 1 09:25:23 GMT 2005


Jan Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 19:10:17 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
>> What if we do this:
>> sftp://host//absolute/path
>> and
>> sftp://host/~/relative/path
>
> The second is a special case of the first ;-). Because ~ expands to
> /home/user -- *including* the leading slash...

It's expanded by your shell if it's in the first position of a token.
Here, it wouldn't be expanded by the shell, and has to be interpreted
somewhere in the sftp implementation.

-- 
Matthieu




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