Re: SCP A file with colon in its name

From: Neil W Rickert (rickert+nn_at_cs.niu.edu)
Date: 12/17/03


Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 04:41:43 GMT

hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Marshall) writes:

>Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> writes:
>>> scp `pwd`/abcde:ghk user@remotehost:/home/user

>>When I later tried it with ssh-3.2.5 (from ssh.com) it failed,

>>I consider that a bug in the ssh.com product.

>That's silly <g> (I'll probably get yelled at for that!)

> scp "abcde\:ghk" host:

Well after checking the man pages, I see that is documented, so I
guess I should retract my comment about it being a bug. Still, the
openssh behavior of not looking past the "/" for a colon makes it
easier to handle this sort of filename.



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