On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:20:08AM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > You probably just need to double up the quotes the name, so that the > remote shell sees them. Something like: > > scp '"leghorn:/mnt/rdbackup/home/sachin/Daily report April -07.ods"' . Actually, that should've been: scp leghorn:'"/mnt/rdbackup/home/sachin/Daily report April -07.ods"' .