Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:23:03 -0500 From: Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sftp and escape characters Message-ID: <20051020172303.GW3679@localdomain> In-Reply-To: <op.syyew7tsh6fndz@ross.inet> References: <op.syxlq0w9h6fndz@ross.inet> <ba5e78ea0510200021x5e599e7aj651d9aa1be0c84d1@mail.gmail.com> <op.syxooagzh6fndz@ross.inet> <ba5e78ea0510200522i555d2737x79b1de068d07ff80@mail.gmail.com> <op.syyew7tsh6fndz@ross.inet>
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:01:45AM -0700, ross wrote:
> my prompt copy and pasted.
> sftp> put "/mnt/pammy/music/Nadasurf-\ Popular.mp3" /files/upload
> Bad escaped character ' '
> sftp> put '/mnt/pammy/music/Nadasurf-\ Popular.mp3' /files/upload
> Bad escaped character ' '
If you're putting the filename in quotes, you don't need to escape
the space (hence the 'Bad escape' error).
~ % touch "this is a test"
~ % sftp $SERVER
Connecting to merk...
sftp> put this\ is\ a\ test
File "this\\" not found.
sftp> put "this is a test"
Uploading this is a test to /home/$USER/this is a test
this is a test 100% 0 0.0KB/s 00:00
sftp>
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