Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:34:48 -0700 From: ross <ross_@telus.net> To: Daniel <jahilliya@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sftp and escape characters Message-ID: <op.syxooagzh6fndz@ross.inet> In-Reply-To: <ba5e78ea0510200021x5e599e7aj651d9aa1be0c84d1@mail.gmail.com> References: <op.syxlq0w9h6fndz@ross.inet> <ba5e78ea0510200021x5e599e7aj651d9aa1be0c84d1@mail.gmail.com>
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I tried that already and got the error Bad escaped character ' ' On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:21:39 -0700, Daniel <jahilliya@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/20/05, ross <ross_@telus.net> wrote: >> Recently, I wanted to upload a file to my friend using sftp. The problem >> is that the file had a space in the file name and the standard escape >> character of \ didn't seem to work. Is there a way around this? Am I >> crazy >> and doing it wrong? for reference, the line I entered in the sftp >> prompt is >> >> sftp> put /mnt/pammy/music/Nadasurf-\ Popular.mp3 /files/upload >> File "/mnt/pammy/music/Nadasurf-\\" not found. > > Try enclosing the path+filename fully in single or double quotes. > > ie. '/mnt/pammy/music/Nadasurf-\ Popular.mp3' or > "/mnt/pammy/music/Nadasurf-\ Popular.mp3" -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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