Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 15:06 +0100 schrieb ext Mick: > I was trying to scp a file which had spaces in its name; e.g. > > This\ is\ the\ name\ of\ it.txt > > But scp would fail each time saying that the name is ambiguous (or > something similar). I also tried enclosing the name in 'single', or > "double" quotes, but it wouldn't have any. > > What's the right way of doing this? > > Both boxen running gentoo and I was using bash shell.
I tried it in my zsh, with TAB-completion (means: I typed "scp
remote_host:~/Fil<tab>"), and it gives this:
scp remote_host:~/File\\\ with\\\ blanks
And, of course, it copies the file just fine :-)
HTH...
Dirk
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