On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 02:11:37PM +0530, Joshua Pritikin wrote: > scp is splitting on whitespace even when I quote the command line > argument: > > ltsp1:/home/sachin/tmp# scp 'leghorn:/mnt/rdbackup/home/sachin/Daily report > +April -07.ods' . > scp: /mnt/rdbackup/home/sachin/Daily: No such file or directory > scp: report: No such file or directory > scp: April: No such file or directory > scp: -07.ods: No such file or directory
You probably just need to double up the quotes the name, so that the remote shell sees them. Something like: scp '"leghorn:/mnt/rdbackup/home/sachin/Daily report April -07.ods"' . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
