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. -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune
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