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From: dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] scp escape characters
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:16:15
Message-Id: 1208355123.28518.18.camel@louisa.europe.nokia.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] scp escape characters by Mick
1 Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 15:06 +0100 schrieb ext Mick:
2
3 > I was trying to scp a file which had spaces in its name; e.g.
4 >
5 > This\ is\ the\ name\ of\ it.txt
6 >
7 > But scp would fail each time saying that the name is ambiguous (or
8 > something similar). I also tried enclosing the name in 'single', or
9 > "double" quotes, but it wouldn't have any.
10 >
11 > What's the right way of doing this?
12 >
13 > Both boxen running gentoo and I was using bash shell.
14
15 I tried it in my zsh, with TAB-completion (means: I typed "scp
16 remote_host:~/Fil<tab>"), and it gives this:
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18 scp remote_host:~/File\\\ with\\\ blanks
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20 And, of course, it copies the file just fine :-)
21
22 HTH...
23
24 Dirk
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