Double quote scp?

[Ben Lindstrom]

Historical reasons.  Refer to how 'rcp' worked, and you'll find it does
the same thing.

- Ben

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, John Davidorff Pell wrote:

> 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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