SCP not escaping spaces [SOLVED]

Trentus

Hey all,

So I've been trying to copy a file on a remote server to my local machine using SCP, but I can't get the thing to escape spaces.

I've tried the following:

scp trentus@server.com:"/home/t/trentus/classes/comp org/assignment 1/file.txt" ~/Desktop/file.txt

and I get

scp: /home/t/trentus/class/comp: No such file or directory
scp: org/assignment: No such file or directory
scp: 1/file.txt: No such file or directory

and

scp trentus@server.com:/home/t/trentus/classes/comp\ org/assignment\ 1/file.txt ~/Desktop/file.txt

which gives me exactly the same response as the other. Any thoughts? There must be something I'm not doing right.

Ganluan

Have you tried using an underscore for the space? Some programs I've used will interpret a space in a remote file system in an underscore if they don't handle spaces normally. I haven't used SCP so I'm not familiar with it.

You could even try using %20 instead of spaces, but I doubt you're using a web server :P

BEAST!

i think double slashes should work and i think you need double quotes around the path, ie

scp trentus@server.com:"/home/t/trentus/classes/comp\\ org/assignment\\ 1/file.txt" ~/Desktop/file.txt

Trentus

I just get a no such file/directory. Thanks for the thought though.

Fugu, a GUI for SFTP has no problem copying the file using SCP. I'd love to be able to do it via the command line though.

Edit:

BEAST! wrote: »

i think double slashes should work and i think you need double quotes around the path, ie

scp trentus@server.com:"/home/t/trentus/classes/comp\\ org/assignment\\ 1/file.txt" ~/Desktop/file.txt

That worked perfectly. Thank you very much. The only question is, why? I might have to ask one of lab assistants or something.

BEAST!

ok..seems i was incorrect on the double slashes

single slash, surround it with double quotes, and that SHOULD work...at least works for me here