How to SCP a path with spaces

Really appreciate stuff like this. Thank you very much

Great but i am not sure if you need to escape the slashes.
But if it is then Thanks for the post.

This also worked for me, and it's easier if you have a filename with a lot of spaces in it:

scp user@host:"'file name with lots of spaces'"

Your local shell will ignore the outer double quotes and the remote shell will receive the filename in single quotes. You would probably have to do something else if the remote filename has " or ' characters.

its very nice

this worked for me. I had a file with spaces in it.

t.

thanks for this tip
i already tried with only double quotes and only \\ but didn't succeed and had always to resolve to symlink the wanted file and scp the symlink

Thanks for the useful information. It is really very helpful for us.

Martin.
http://www.ezeeforum.com

Thanks a bunch, this really helped me out!

Thanks,this is the only infomation I found about this problem.

Thank you!

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Very good post, thanks a lot.

I was about to change my file structure and remove all spaces when I found your post. This double escaping stuff is always tricky :)

Thanks a lot for putting this up.

Abhaya

The original post didn't work for me (with the double quotes and double slashes). What did work was the single quotes inside double quotes. Thanks for creating a forum to solve the problem though.

Jeff
http://www.webdynamic.com.au

The reason why you needed quotes around the remote path is because you've escaped your escape - using \\ escapes the backslash, leaving the following space unescaped. So yet another alternative is to use:

scp -r myserver.com:/path/with/a/Space\\\ In\\\ It ./

Note the three backslashes - two to produce a single escaped backslash (which is presumably sent to the remote host) and a third to escape the following space locally. Phew!

Thank you, really on time! That is what we were looking for. Thank you.

I had to TRIPLE escape the slash when I didn't use quotes around the entire path.

scp server:~/This\\\ file\\\ please.txt .

Apparently this tells scp to send a backslash (escaping the backslash) and a space (escaping the space) to the host system.

-Aaron-

Thank you!

The bottom line is that a remote pathname must be passed by the local shell to scp as quoted, because the pathname is interpreted on the remote end. To protect the quoting from the local shell, a second level of quoting is required. Any of these will work (at least in bash):

scp -r myserver.com:'"/path/with/a/Space In It"' ./
scp -r myserver.com:"'/path/with/a/Space In It'" ./
scp -r myserver.com:'/path/with/a/Space\ In\ It' ./
scp -r myserver.com:"/path/with/a/Space\ In\ It" ./
scp -r myserver.com:/path/with/a/Space\\\ In\\\ It ./

Your stated solution is really the fourth one above - the \\ in your solution resolves to \ because \ retains its special meaning inside double quotes when it is followed by a \. So only \ is necessary.

Thanks!

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Thanks for helping me solve that!

Thanks a lot, it worked like a charm :)

Thanks for the info

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Really thanks !!!!