scp-wrapper

#!/bin/bash

password=$(awk '
BEGIN {
    # Collect the SCP arguments as keys of a dictionary, so that we can easily
    # check for inclusion.
    for (i = 2; i < ARGC; i++) {
        colonIdx = index(ARGV[i], ":")
        if (colonIdx > 0) {
            scpArgs[substr(ARGV[i], 1, colonIdx - 1)] = 1
        }
    }

    # Only process the first argument; all others are the command-line arguments
    # given to scp.
    ARGC = 2
}
$1 == "Password" && inhost { print $2 }
/^\s*Host\s/ {
    if ($2 in scpArgs)
        inhost=1
    else
        inhost=0
}
' ~/.ssh/config "$@")


if [ "$password" ]; then
    sshpass -p "$password" "$(which scp)" "$@"
else
    "$(which scp)" "$@"
fi