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Re: [gentoo-user] scp escape characters

Michal 'vorner' Vaner

2008-04-16

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Hello

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:06:05PM +0100, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was trying to scp a file which had spaces in its name; e.g.
>
> This\ is\ the\ name\ of\ it.txt

There is a problem ‒ it unescapes at both ends, so you need to
double-escape it, like

'Filename\ with\ spaces'

or

Filename\\\ with\\\ spaces.

Or, something like that (if I see it right).

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