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Bug#157284: marked as done (ssh: document filename globbing/escaping in sftp)

Your message dated Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:09:06 +0100
with message-id <20080722170906.GA16997@riva.ucam.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#157284: ssh: sftp does not deal with remote file names contain some characters
has caused the Debian Bug report #157284,
regarding ssh: document filename globbing/escaping in sftp
to be marked as done.

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Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.4p1-1
Severity: normal

backup:~# sftp max.intranet
Connecting to max.intranet...
sftp> ls
...
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            4 Aug 19 16:41 test
...
sftp> get test
Fetching /root/test to test
sftp> rename test [test]
sftp> ls
...
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            4 Aug 19 16:41 [test]
...
sftp> get [test]
File "/root/[test]" not found.
sftp> _

Above shoud say evrything.

So, scp does not work with spaces (bug #144579), sftp - with some characters, any
suggestions?

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux backup 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL

Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.47             Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                 1.0.32           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.2.5-11.1       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules          0.72-35          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                0.72-35          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libssl0.9.6             0.9.6c-2.woody.0 SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                7.6-9            Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.1.4-1        compression library - runtime

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Source: openssh
Source-Version: 1:4.0p1-1

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:16:18PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> > sftp> get [test]
> > File "/root/[test]" not found.
> 
> The get command shell pathname expansion, for which [ is special.
>   get \[test]
> should work.
> 
> This is probably an intentional feature ("get *.c" is very useful),
> but should really be documented. Here's a patch:

Thanks, and sorry I didn't deal with this at the time. Upstream made a
similar change some time back, which was included in OpenSSH 4.0p1:

revision 1.57
date: 2004/12/06 11:46:46;  author: dtucker;  state: Exp;  lines: +85 -31
   - jaredy@cvs.openbsd.org 2004/12/05 23:55:07
     [sftp.1]
     - explain that patterns can be used as arguments in get/put/ls/etc
       commands (prodded by Michael Knudsen)
     - describe ls flags as a list
     - other minor improvements
     ok jmc, djm

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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