| Summary: | cd Command With No Arguments | ||||||
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| Product: | Portable OpenSSH | Reporter: | skerbsf | ||||
| Component: | sftp | Assignee: | Damien Miller <djm> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | djm, dtucker | ||||
| Priority: | P5 | ||||||
| Version: | 7.5p1 | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | All | ||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 2782 | ||||||
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Created attachment 3083 [details]
support ch/lcd with no arguments
This implements most of your request. The problem is that sftp can't determine the actual user home directory on the remote side, so this saves the directory that the session starts in and uses that.
This is committed and will be in OpenSSH 7.7 closing resolved bugs as of 8.6p1 release |
This is a usability issue that is debatable. The sftp client currently returns an error when no arguments are given. It appears that the server does not even get involved. > sftp kona3 Connecting to kona3... Password: sftp> cd You must specify a path after a cd command. Personally, I believe that the client should change into the remote home directory when cd with zero arguments is typed. This would mimic the behavior users expect/are used to on UNIX filesystems/utilities. Of course, I am new here and have different expectations, but this does seem like a usability issue IMO. Thanks.