On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:34:00PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
>
> Hello List,
>
> 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?
>
> $ scp 'localhost:archiv/music/Sonata Arctica/Silence/12_Wolf & Raven.ogg'
Not really; it's a horrible quoting issue. When quoting filenames
with scp, you have to quote them twice, e.g.:
scp 'localhost:archiv/music/Sonata\ Arctica/Silence/12_Wolf\ \&\ Raven.ogg' .
... which is why sftp was invented; it's probably easier to use that.
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