Bug#419848: how to copy files containing space?

[Joshua Pritikin <joshua@nirmalvihar.info>]

Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:4.3p2-5
Severity: normal

scp is splitting on whitespace even when I quote the command line
argument:

ltsp1:/home/sachin/tmp# scp 'leghorn:/mnt/rdbackup/home/sachin/Daily report
+April -07.ods' .
scp: /mnt/rdbackup/home/sachin/Daily: No such file or directory
scp: report: No such file or directory
scp: April: No such file or directory
scp: -07.ods: No such file or directory

What is the proper way to quote file paths?

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Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.6-b1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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ii  libedit2            2.9.cvs.20050518-2.2 BSD editline and history libraries
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ii  passwd              1:4.0.14-9           change and administer password and
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3-11           compression library - runtime

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