$ scp some-local-file remote:'`touch you-lose`remote-file' "This will result in the creation of two files on the remote system: the expected remote-file and an

$ scp some-local-file remote:'`touch you-lose`remote-file' "This will result in the creation of two files on the remote system: the expected remote-file and an empty file called you-lose. Adding more interesting contents to that file is left as an exercise for the reader." The hell?!? 1. Why is scp running shell commands? 2. How is this a problem with the protocol?