Comments on: Spaces and SCP http://www.jonsimpson.co.uk/weblog/2005-03-06/spaces-and-scp.html My personal space for ideas & information. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:44:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Scott http://www.jonsimpson.co.uk/weblog/2005-03-06/spaces-and-scp.html#comment-39986 Scott Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:27:27 +0000 /?p=14#comment-39986 Interestingly, neither of those worked for me, I had to do a third variation: scp user@host:'"d:/path/some filename with spaces"' dest where the outer single quotes protect the command line for scp to pass through the double quotes to the windows machine on the other end (which is how windows does spaces). scott Interestingly, neither of those worked for me, I had to do a third variation:

scp user@host:’”d:/path/some filename with spaces”‘ dest

where the outer single quotes protect the command line for scp to pass through the double quotes to the windows machine on the other end (which is how windows does spaces).

scott

]]> By: Mark Rogers http://www.jonsimpson.co.uk/weblog/2005-03-06/spaces-and-scp.html#comment-36292 Mark Rogers Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:06:20 +0000 /?p=14#comment-36292 I found your blog while Googling for the answer myself, but your solution doesn't work for me. What I needed to use was: scp user@host:"'/Path/Some Filename With Spaces'" [destination] Note " then ' (after the host) then ' and " after the path. I found your blog while Googling for the answer myself, but your solution doesn’t work for me. What I needed to use was:

scp user@host:”‘/Path/Some Filename With Spaces’” [destination]

Note ” then ‘ (after the host) then ‘ and ” after the path.

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