Re: files with a colon?
From: neil (neil_at_bellsimons.com)
Date: 04/14/04
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To: Matt Richard <matt.richard@fandm.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:36:00 -0400
scp './ldap3.example.org:0.rej' user@host:
worked for me
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 08:26, Matt Richard wrote:
> Alright, surely someone has asked this before! But I cannot find a
> reference to help me.
>
> How do I use scp to copy a file with a colon in the filename?
>
> Specifically I'm looking at OpenLDAP's rejection log files.
>
> I've tried single and double quotes, and even backslash - colon,
> which often works on Mac OSX. But nothing works!
>
> the filename is ldap3.example.org:0.rej
>
> When I do "scp ldap3.example.org:0.rej matt@matt.example.org:~/", scp
> asks me for the password on ldap3 instead of the password on matt.
> The same thing happens if I do "scp *.rej matt@matt.example.org:~/".
>
> I know I could modify the openldap code to use a different character,
> but that doesn't help me with stock servers.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
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