scp

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2009–2020), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with scp, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Scp and ssh use inconsistent flags and IPv6 syntax, making commands annoying to convert2020-11-06
Must quit ssh, edit the command, run scp, then restore session2020-05-20
Requires confusing -3 flag for machine-to-machine copies and has awkward argument syntax with special characters2016-11-30
Must open a second terminal and type a lot to transfer files during an ssh session2009-05-14