emilis/emilis-config

Emilis' personal configuration files

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Breaks scp

I had been beating my head against the wall, trying to find out why scp was no longer working. Then I read that "echo" in your .bash initailization scripts is known to break it.

A little background. I use a Mac running OS X 10.7 Lion, and administer a Linux server running RHES 5, and have for 10 years. I keep my ssh keys on my Mac and have the public key copied to authorized_keys on the Linux server. ssh continues to work normally. I seldom scp, but when I tried today, everything seemed to work, except it didn't actually transfer a file (local to remote), it just hangs. Sending from remote to local spits out a line giving the file permissions, size and file name, but it doesn't actually transfer the file.

I tried lots of things - turned off the firewall, even went so far as to install the Mac Ports version of openssh, but no go.

Then I remembered that I had added .bash_ps1 to the end of my .bash_profile. I commented it out on both ends and voila scp works again.

I am an intermediate bash user. I'm not sure what could be done to see if you're using scp, and disable the echo. I suppose checking parameter $0 might work.

Anyway, I have .bash_ps1 disabled for now.

Thanks!

Fred

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