On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:02:50PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/04/11 13:41, Bryan Irvine wrote: > > scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:"a\ b" . > > you have to escape to *both* your local shell, and the remote shell
This has always seemed silly to me. Does anyone intentionally use $ scp host:"a b" . instead of $ scp host:"{a,b}" . or $ scp host:a host:b . or is just that having whatever does the globbing on the host not split at white space too difficult?