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Ever forgotten the ':' after the hostname of an scp command?
# a useful addition to anyone's .bashrc
#
# Note, you don't want this function in effect on the remote host side of the scp transfer,
# so make sure to only define it for interactive shells, e.g.: wrap with: if [ ! -z "$PS1" ]
function scp() {
if echo "$@" | grep -q ':'
then
/usr/bin/scp "$@"
else
echo -e "\e[31;1mYou want to put your what in my where!?!?\e[0m"
fi
}
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kramse commented Mar 6, 2014

mine from KSH .profile:
wscp()
{
if [[ "$@" = +(:) ]];then
/usr/bin/scp "$@"
else
echo 'You forgot the colon dumbass!'
fi
}
alias scp=wscp

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