Bug 181

Summary:	Undocumented mget and mput in sftp
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Patrick Heim <Maldoror>
Component:	sftp	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	P5
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Patrick Heim 2002-03-23 07:27:15 AEDT

Althgough 'mget' and 'mput' work under sftp, they are not documented in the 
sftp help menu.

Also, are there plans to add the ftp equivalent 'hash' and 'prompt' commands?

Comment 1 Jason McCormick 2002-03-28 15:26:54 AEDT

 mget and mput are just "aliased" commands to get and put, I'm assuming for some
kind of compatability.  mget and mput expect the get and put parameters and DO
NOT function like FTP-based mget and mput (i.e. mget file1 file2.. file#).  I'd
be happy to submit a patch for this, but not sure it's really useful.

  There's been work on a status-bar by Ben, but I'm not sure the state of it. 
Don't know about prompt.

Comment 2 Markus Friedl 2002-03-28 21:06:29 AEDT

i don't like to see mget and mput in sftp. it's such an ugly user interface

Comment 3 Ben Lindstrom 2002-04-06 07:59:46 AEST

- prompt I could see adding, but default to 'no'.
- hash has no real business, but a progress meter would be nice.  The
main issue is handling it correctly for sftp protocol (which is not as
easy as scp since it supports out of order transfers)
- mget/mput should really not exist either since they don't act like what 
people expect.

Can we remove mget/mput since they are just alias to get/put and don't act the 
way people expect them to?

Comment 4 Ben Lindstrom 2002-07-20 04:14:18 AEST

mget/mput will stay undocumented.

Comment 5 Damien Miller 2004-04-14 12:24:18 AEST

Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED