On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:59:25AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Any idea on how to specify a source file as used in an
> scp or rcp command, where the source filename contains
> a colon?
>
> Here is an example that fails:
>
> [rickw] scp log_20001030-08:41:23 rickw@bini/home/rickw
try
scp log_20001030-08\:41\:23 rickw@bini:/home/rickw
or maybe
scp 'log_20001030-08:41:23' rickw@bini:/home/rickw
>
> Bad host name: log_20001030-08
>
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