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wrstoday at 3:31 AM3 repliesview on HN

Those aren’t “secret”, they’re obviously borrowed from rsh — oh that’s right, I’m old.


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jervanttoday at 2:11 PM

I'm pretty sure the ~ command style came from cu(1) which had it in at least 4.1BSD. I don't think rsh (which came in 4.2BSD) ever had such commands.

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aidenn0today at 3:55 AM

And these days you need to pass "-O" to scp to have it behave like rcp.

aa-jvtoday at 9:24 AM

Laughs in uucp!bangpath.