> For all of these reasons, it would be nice to have a version of scp that doesn't suffer from the current command's problems. As it turns out, Jakub Jelen is w

> For all of these reasons, it would be nice to have a version of scp that doesn't suffer from the current command's problems. As it turns out, Jakub Jelen is working on such a thing; it is an scp command that uses the sftp protocol under the hood. I believe this is the right path to go. If the compatibility or feature parity (e.g. backticks) is a concern, make that feature require options or envvars.