[Bug 18757] Re: scp gets confused when destination directory is missing.

[Łukasz Zaroda]

This bug is still here on 12.04 Precise Pangolin. It's quite annoying.

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Title:
  scp gets confused when destination directory is missing.

Status in Portable OpenSSH:
  Unknown
Status in “openssh” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  It appears that scp gets confused if one tries to copy a file in to a missing
  directory:

  % pwd
  /tmp/test
  % touch foo
  % ls
  foo
  % scp foo localhost:/tmp/test/not-a-dir/
  user at localhost's password:
  scp: /tmp/test/not-a-dir/: Is a directory
  % scp foo localhost:/tmp/test/not-a-dir
  user at localhost's password:
  foo                                           100%    0     0.0KB/s   00:00
  % ls
  foo  not-a-dir
  %

  above, the error in question should be "Directory does not exist" instead of "Is
  a directory"

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