On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:17:38PM -0400, Nick ! wrote: > On 4/11/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > >> Of Karel Kulhavy > >> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:47 PM > >> To: OpenBSD > >> Subject: scp problem with remote filename escaping > >> Sounds like a bug to me - the escaping for the remote shell is not being > >> done > >> correctly? > > > >Wow. > > > >Seriously, I think the real 'bug' is your file naming conventions. > > > >Who would anyone specifically want to name a file with a space in it... > >and if breaks on scp, where else will that screwy naming convention > >break as well? > > > >I'm sure you'll give some really good reason why the files have to be > >named that way... > > 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. > > -Nick >
scp needs 3 * \ for one space.. scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/what/you/want/a\\\ b.txt localfile.txt \s -- GnuPG: 5755FB64 Per aspera ad astra.
