Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-13 Thread Marcus Andree
>From someone who speaks a native language with several "extended characters": even non-unix systems (has Windows earned the "system" status already?) sucks with weird file names. > > That should work.. but, spaces and "extended characters" are so "unclean" in > the Unix world, it was never de

Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-12 Thread Marc Rene Arns
So it must be an FreeBSD issue, sorry for the noise. > I ran a few tests, and OpenBSD seems perfectly capable of using those > extended characters have you tried using doubled quotes? I tried *everything* (backslash, double quotes, single quotes,...) BTW my ssh version is OpenSSH_4.5p1 FreeBSD

Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-12 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Marc Rene Arns wrote: Hi, I need to transfer files via sftp (ssh ftp) from a Windows machine. This files may contain Umlauts (vd|) and Spaces. I made several tests and stuck with the following: sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/file-withv|d.txt' works, but sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/file with spaces.tx

Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-12 Thread Unix Fan
I ran a few tests, and OpenBSD seems perfectly capable of using those extended characters have you tried using doubled quotes? sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:"file with spaces and Umlauts.txt" That should work.. but, spaces and "extended characters" are so "unclean" in the Unix world, it was ne

Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-12 Thread Marc Rene Arns
Apparently the Umlauts in my mail got mangled by majordomo, I meant german latin1 characters, sometimes rewritten as 'ae' 'oe' and 'ue'. benny > Hi, > > I need to transfer files via sftp (ssh ftp) from a Windows machine. > This files may contain Umlauts (vd|) and Spaces. > > I made several tests a