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fuuman
fuuman

Reputation: 461

ssh - alternative to copy with cp

I want to copy a file with spaces. For example "file 1.jpg". I want to do it from a putty-ssh session. cp doenst work because of the spaces. Is there another way to do it? Destination is a network share.

Thanks for your kindly assistance in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 256

Answers (1)

user2864740
user2864740

Reputation: 61885

cp doesn't care about spaces: it is the shell that does, when it parses the command line parameters. An alternative program would have the exact same problem.

Use quotes or escape the spaces. For example;

$ cp "with spaces" nospaces

$ cp with\ spaces nospaces

Upvotes: 1

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