How to make scp to use ipv6 addresses?
scp
requires some special syntax. The IPv6 address must be enclosed in brackets, which must then be escaped. So in your example it would look like this:
scp -6 osis@\[2001:db8:0:1\]:/home/osis/test.file ./test.file
Otherwise the first colon ':' is thought to be the separator between the file and the address parts which would result in
ssh: Could not resolve hostname 2001: Address family for hostname not supported
In your example with the ip ::1
it is interpreted as if you want to ssh to the host ''
(blank).