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The path after : is optional, with the default being the remote user's
home directory. Consider "scp blah.txt user@host:"

For the case of "scp -prv user@remotehost: /path/to/copy .", it's doing...

No it was actually $HOME of the user. I almost wiped out my data. I did a test afterwards on a test system. It copied all the $HOME data

Thanks for responding Corona. Can you share what version you run?

My Server runs:

"Linux myhostname 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 8 17:36:59 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

Red Hat...

Hi,

I hope someone can explain if this is the right behaviour. I regularly use scp to copy files between hosts like this:

scp -prv user@remotehost:/path/to/copy .

However, today, I made a...