[SOLVED] scp and file names with spaces

[joris1977]

I read this wiki at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHHowto
and it says:
quote: scp "New Document.odw" joe@laptop:"/home/joe/Summer 2005"

It seems to me i could use scp to move files with empty spaces when i use " "

but when i do this i get:

joris@ubuntu:~$ scp joris@noob.no-ip.org:"/home/joris/Waco Brothers - ... To the last dead cowboy.tar.gz" .
joris@noob.no-ip.org's password:
scp: /home/joris/seeding/Waco: No such file or directory
scp: Brothers: No such file or directory
scp: -: No such file or directory
scp: ...: No such file or directory
scp: To: No such file or directory
scp: the: No such file or directory
scp: last: No such file or directory
scp: dead: No such file or directory
scp: cowboy.tar.gz: No such file or directory

So clearly " " didn't help. Of course i can rename the .tar.gz file and then move the files. Or i can grab the files with nautilus, but both are a little extra work. So maybe someone has a solution to this small problem?

[jpkotta]

Maybe try more quotes:

scp user@host:"'filename with spaces'" destination

[joris1977]

Yes!!! more quotes works

jpkotta thank you very much for your fast and well informed reply.

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