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' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dst/dir or $ scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/src/dir/This is the name of it.txt' /dst/dir 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/src/dir/This* /dst/dir -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
