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You can use -P.

• kasey_junk 8y ago
  Whoever made it -p in ssh & -P in scp can fuck right off.
  • cesarb 8y ago
    The reason is that scp was designed as a secure replacement for rcp, which was designed as a remote version of cp. The flags -p and -r were inherited from cp by rcp (see https://linux.die.net/man/1/rcp https://linux.die.net/man/1/rcp), so for compatibility scp had to use the same flags. As for ssh, I haven't looked at its history, but I suspect it's older than scp; the intuitive flag for "port" is -p, so that's what ssh used.
• code_duck 8y ago
  Good to know. I wonder if that's a recent improvement? Last time I was doing lots of sysadmin work was 2011.