Re: PuTTY pscp.exe and Square Brackets - [ & ]

Matt <mattfysh@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
pscp.exe seems to have troubles listing or downloading from an SFTP
when a directory with square brackets is involved, eg, [root]

I've tried many of the usual things like adding single quotes or
backslashes before the square brackets, or enclosing the whole
directory name in double-quotes.

There is a bug in all releases to date (up to and including 0.58) with
the parsing of IPv6 literal addresses (which use square brackets) in the
PSCP command line, which can cause this sort of trouble.
It's fixed in the current development snapshots (>= r6511).

(If PSCP falls back to the SCP protocol, as opposed to SFTP, you may
also have fun with server-side parsing of these characters.)
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