Double quote scp?

[John Davidorff Pell]

I've noticed that I need to double quote file names in scp:

> scp gaelicWizard:"Desktop/Picture 1.pdf" .
> scp: Desktop/Picture: No such file or directory
> scp: 1.pdf: No such file or directory

Why is this necessary? Wouldn't it be much better to have scp 
communicate with its server-side counterpart with null-terminated 
strings, not to have the server interpret the strings separately?

Thanx,
JP



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