On Wednesday 16 April 2008, 16:06, 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
>
> 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.

Either

$ scp 'This is the name of it.txt' user@(protected)

or

$ scp user@(protected)

depending on who's local and who's remote, should work.

If neither does, post the actual command you were using.

PS: Of course, if only that file begins with that characters, you can
cheat and do

$ scp user@(protected)
--
gentoo-user@(protected)