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I agree, spaces in filenames should be avoided. But spaces in filenames are legal, so programs need to support that; this seems like a case scp was never tested against because no one uses files with those names.
I scp'd a file called 'a b' to an openbsd server here, then scp'd it back a couple time in different ways. It worked only when using the quotes AND escaping, like so: scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:"a\ b" . --Bryan