Re: escaping, bash
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 08:40:57PM +0100, 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
You have to double-quote spaces for scp, so:
scp hugh@wacka.mjr.org:'~/grant\ letter.doc' ~/
It sucks, but unfortunately the protocol comes from rcp, has been
deployed for twenty years or so, and therefore can't be fixed without
breaking compatibility with a lot of systems. You can use sftp or
rsync-over-ssh as an alternative.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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