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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:21:39 +0800
From: Daniel <jahilliya@gmail.com>
To: ross <ross_@telus.net>
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Subject: Re: sftp and escape characters
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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 craz=
y
> 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"