Re: escaping, bash

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Hugh Saunders wrote:
> hugh@nomessin:~$ scp hugh@wacka.mjr.org:~/grant\ letter.doc ~/
> hugh@mjr.org's password:
> scp: /home/hugh/grant: No such file or directory
> scp: letter.doc: No such file or directory
>
> hugh@wacka:~$ du -h grant\ letter.doc
> 48k     grant letter.doc
>
>
> so its obvious what went wrong -i only mean to request one file. 
> How do specify the file correctly?
>
> [for now i shall rename it then copy it but would be good to know for
> future reference]
>
> thanks,

hugh@nomessin:~$ scp 'hugh@wacka.mjr.org:~/grant\ letter.doc' ~/
hugh@nomessin:~$ scp hugh@wacka.mjr.org:~/grant\\\ letter.doc ~/
hugh@nomessin:~$ scp hugh@wacka.mjr.org:~/grant?letter.doc ~/

Though the last one has the potential to grap more than one file...