scp with ':' as file delimiter

[Tatu Ylonen]

> I am trying to scp a file which has a ':' as a delimiter.  Is there a way to
> use quotes, '/' or something to make this work?  

How about using '?' in place of the ':'?  Note that you will need to
quote the entire pathname to avoid local shell expansion of the '?'.

    Tatu

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