Re: SSH file transfer doesn't handle filenames with blanks

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Subject: Re: SSH file transfer doesn't handle filenames with blanks
From: Lars Wirzenius <liw@pieni.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:34:57 +0300
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ti, 2004-04-20 kello 14:34, Sebastian Kapfer kirjoitti:
> To my great amazement, scp refused to copy filenames with blanks or worse
> characters (like an ampersand '&') in it.  Is that a bug in SSH?

I think it is, at least partially, but I also am under the impression
that it is not going to be fixed ever. If I have understood things
correctly, scp mimicks rcp here so that it can be a drop-in replacement
for rcp. This is why scp was designed the way it was.

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