Article:		Unix on Panther: Accessing the Internet
Subject:		SCP paths and spaces
Date:		2004-03-29 13:48:21
From:		epistemos
Nice article. I have been trying to solve the problem of using scp to copy file with spaces in the path name, I have not been able to get quotes to work, any suggestions. -travis n

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• SCP paths and spaces
  2004-03-29 16:52:26  alantech [View]
  
  
  Have you tried prefacing the spaces with backslashes (\) instead of quoting the pathname?
• SCP paths and spaces
  2004-03-30 13:54:35  epistemos [View]
  
  
  Hello,
  
  Yes, I have tried escaping the spaces individually as well, with single and double backslashes.
  Have you gotten such to work?
  
  Thanks.
  -travis n
• SCP paths and spaces
  2004-05-19 03:10:07  pxmatt [View]
  
  
  You need to escape the remote path with both backslashes *and* double-quotes, see here for a more detailed explanation:
  
  
  
  http://www.dansanderson.com/blog/view.php3?entry_id=03319