Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-13 Thread Marcus Andree
From someone who speaks a native language with several extended characters: even non-unix systems (has Windows earned the system status already?) sucks with weird file names. snip That should work.. but, spaces and extended characters are so unclean in the Unix world, it was never designed

sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-12 Thread Marc Rene Arns
Hi, I need to transfer files via sftp (ssh ftp) from a Windows machine. This files may contain Umlauts (vd|) and Spaces. I made several tests and stuck with the following: sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/file-withv|d.txt' works, but sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/file with spaces.txt' doesn't work. If I

Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-12 Thread Marc Rene Arns
Apparently the Umlauts in my mail got mangled by majordomo, I meant german latin1 characters, sometimes rewritten as 'ae' 'oe' and 'ue'. benny Hi, I need to transfer files via sftp (ssh ftp) from a Windows machine. This files may contain Umlauts (vd|) and Spaces. I made several tests and

Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-12 Thread Unix Fan
I ran a few tests, and OpenBSD seems perfectly capable of using those extended characters have you tried using doubled quotes? sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file with spaces and Umlauts.txt That should work.. but, spaces and extended characters are so unclean in the Unix world, it was never

Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-12 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Marc Rene Arns wrote: Hi, I need to transfer files via sftp (ssh ftp) from a Windows machine. This files may contain Umlauts (vd|) and Spaces. I made several tests and stuck with the following: sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/file-withv|d.txt' works, but sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/file with

Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-12 Thread Marc Rene Arns
So it must be an FreeBSD issue, sorry for the noise. I ran a few tests, and OpenBSD seems perfectly capable of using those extended characters have you tried using doubled quotes? I tried *everything* (backslash, double quotes, single quotes,...) BTW my ssh version is OpenSSH_4.5p1