scp and filenames with weird characters

[Markus Friedl]

es and rc are different.

On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:54:59PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:22:21PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > > -   "%s%s -x -o'FallBackToRsh no' -n -l %s %s %s %s '%s%s%s:%s'",
> > > +   "%s%s -x -o'FallBackToRsh no' -n -l 
> > >      \"%s\" \"%s\" \"%s\"\"%s\" '%s%s%s:%s'",
> > 
> > not every shell uses " for quotes, some use ' only.
> 
> For all shells that I've tested so far, " and ' are equivalent in the
> context of "quoting is used to preserve blanks in arguments" (sh and
> all compatibles, csh, zsh).
> 
> The main difference between these is whether variables ("$foo") are
> expanded or not.  So single quotes might be a better choice to avoid
> surprises with '$' in file names.
> 
> gert
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