scp:// is a thing (like ssh://)Today I learned that there is a formal URI for scp (by reading the man page).
scp scp://user@localhost:22//home/rwxrob/somefile.txt /tmp/
scp scp://user@localhost:22/somefile.txt /tmp/
It is relative by default, which I wasn’t expecting to be the case. When I tried // for force root I was pleasantly surprised. I think this works for Windows ssh servers as well (but haven’t tested).
I’ve known about the equivalent for ssh for a while:
ssh ssh://user@localhost:22 tail -1 somefile.txt