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Mick wrote: |
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> On 16/04/2008, dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com> wrote: |
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>> Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 15:06 +0100 schrieb ext Mick: |
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>> > I was trying to scp a file which had spaces in its name; e.g. |
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>> > This\ is\ the\ name\ of\ it.txt |
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>> I tried it in my zsh, with TAB-completion (means: I typed "scp |
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>> remote_host:~/Fil<tab>"), and it gives this: |
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>> scp remote_host:~/File\\\ with\\\ blanks |
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>> And, of course, it copies the file just fine :-) |
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> Thanks guys, I'll try it next time. Just one thing: if the spaces |
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> need to be escaped at both ends, shouldn't it have just 2 \\, why are |
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> you showing it with 3 \\\ ? |
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It's escaping the first slash and the space: |
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'\\ \ ' -> '\ ' -> ' ' |
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--K |
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