>> ssh -p but scp -P I hate inconsistent command line interfaces, too. If you type `ssh` it dumps usage information. Most commands will respond to `command --h

>> ssh -p but scp -P I hate inconsistent command line interfaces, too. If you type `ssh` it dumps usage information. Most commands will respond to `command --help` (but not ssh, irritatingly). Failing that, you can write shell functions to wrap your own interfaces around commands -- I do this all the time.