On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the great tips, Jay. Unfortunately, I'm trying to make a script > that I can share with users who probably won't be interested in editing > their config files. I might be able to use some of your ideas in some way > in other work, though. > If you are scripting it and cant or dont want to edit the config file directly, remember that you can pass config file options on the commandline, with -o. So you could do something like this: scp -o 'ProxyCommand=ssh machineB /usr/bin/nc machineA 22' $* Jay