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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