blanks in filenames

[Björn Jacke]

On 2000-11-21 at 07:01 -0800 Jeremy Katz sent off:
> You need to double escape the space.  Otherwise, your escaping only
> affects the local shell and not the shell invoked on the remote machine.
> So use something like
>   scp -v telefon.cgi lamarr:a\\\ directory/

great, that works but it's a realy weird way to do such simple things.
Almost no one will have the idea to do it this way. The commercial ssh
also just need a simple quotation. Wouldn't it be a good idea to let
openssh do the quoting for the remote machine?

Cheers
Björn
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Björn Jacke ·  E-Mail: bjacke at suse.de
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