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On Wednesday 16 April 2008, 16:06, Mick wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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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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> But scp would fail each time saying that the name is ambiguous (or |
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> something similar). I also tried enclosing the name in 'single', or |
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> "double" quotes, but it wouldn't have any. |
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> What's the right way of doing this? |
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> Both boxen running gentoo and I was using bash shell. |
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Either |
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$ scp 'This is the name of it.txt' user@remote:/dst/dir |
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or |
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$ scp user@remote:'/src/dir/This is the name of it.txt' /dst/dir |
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depending on who's local and who's remote, should work. |
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If neither does, post the actual command you were using. |
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PS: Of course, if only that file begins with that characters, you can |
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cheat and do |
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$ scp user@remote:/src/dir/This* /dst/dir |
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