Using a trailing forward slash in Windows causes problems #189
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If I copy "src" to "dst", it works.
If I copy "src/" to "dst", it fails (only when running on Windows).
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Let' s see it with an example.
First of all, in Linux, let's create a test folder structure:
$ mkdir data $ touch data/1.txt $ touch data/2.txt $ mkdir data/3 $ touch data/3/3.txt $ tree . └── data ├── 1.txt ├── 2.txt └── 3 └── 3.txtNext, let's create an example (
test.py) that makes use of the scp library:Finally, let's use this script to copy the folder data to a remote server:
$ test.py data $ ssh example.com tree /tmp /tmp └── data ├── 1.txt ├── 2.txt └── 3 └── 3.txtWe can also run the same script with "data/" instead of "data" if we want to transfer the contents of the folder and not the folder itself:
$ test.py data/ $ ssh example.com tree /tmp /tmp ├── 1.txt ├── 2.txt └── 3 └── 3.txtSo far, so good. The problem comes when we try the same thing in Windows: the first example (data) works, but the second example (data/) results in this error:
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