How can I scp when path and / or filename to copy has spaces?
After some investigation, I have found these two options:
scp 'user@remote_host:"/home/user/path with spaces/filename with spaces.ext"' .
and
scp 'user@remote_host:/home/user/path\ with\ spaces/filename\ with\ spaces.ext' .
I hope it helps you too!
Have fun!
Edit - openssh was updated with a security feature that causes, with certain characters in the path name, an error message "protocol error: filename does not match request". In that case using scp's new -T
option will allow it to work. for example
scp -T 'user@remote_host:"/home/user/path with spaces/filename with spaces and (2018).ext"' .
This is explained in https://stackoverflow.com/a/54599326