Those aren’t “secret”, they’re obviously borrowed from rsh — oh that’s right, I’m old.
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.
And these days you need to pass "-O" to scp to have it behave like rcp.
Laughs in uucp!bangpath.
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.