title: scp gives "not a regular file"
body: <p>I have a problem when using scp on Linux, it says "not a regular file". I looked at other questions/answers about that, but I can't find out what's wrong...
  I wrote:</p>
  
  <pre><code>scp aa@aa:/home/pictures/file.fits .
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to copy <code>file.fits</code> from <code>aa@aa</code>, <code>/home/pictures</code> to the current directory. I also tried without using <code>/home/</code>, but it didn't work neither...</p>
  
  <p>Do you understand what's wrong?</p>