SCP/SFTP Brain Fart

[Oliver Fromme]

Tony Holmes wrote:
 > > It seems that your shell profile executes stty(1) even
 > > for non-interactive shells.  That is wrong.  Make sure
 > > that you shell profiles and rc files do not call stty
 > > or produce any output for non-interactive sessions.
 > > Such output confuses scp.
 > 
 > So obvious!
 > 
 > The offender:
 > 
 > .login
 > 
 > stty erase ^H
 > 
 > This was a carry over from ages ago when my chosen terminal s/w didn't
 > support the backspace mapping.

Ah, so you use csh or tcsh.  The execution of profiles is
somewhat broken in (t)csh, there is no separation between
interactive and non-interactive shells.

You can keep the stty statement in your .login file if you
put it int oa conditional, like this:

if ($?prompt) then
        stty erase ^H
endif

That works because the variable $prompt is unset for non-
interactive (t)csh sessions.

Best regards
   Oliver

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