OpenSSH_6.0p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013 When using banners in SSH, scp -q will only suppress banners for one remove host, but not two. See the following example, using SSH 6.0p1 compiled on AIX 5.3 and distributed by IBM. root@host3:/tmp --> scp -q host1:/tmp/x.out /tmp/x.out.host1 root@host3:/tmp --> scp -q /tmp/x.out host2:/tmp/x.out.host3 root@host3:/tmp --> scp -q host1:/tmp/x.out host2:/tmp/x.out.host1 ################################################################# # Hostname: host2 # ################################################################# root@host3:/tmp -->