• @gears
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    7 months ago

    It gets real crazy when you’re sending remote commands so you have to escape the escapes so that the remote keeps them and properly escapes the space

    ssh -t remote "mv /home/me/folder\\\ with \\\ spaces /home/me/downloads/

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      Yup, this is me with scp. Well, it would be if I didn’t just use asterisks to avoid that PITA.

      • @gears
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        17 months ago

        It doesn’t for commands without spaces (i.e reboot) You might be able to escape the spaces and not use quotes, I’m not sure

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          Might be client-dependent; I’ve regularly ran commands with spaces (e.g. ssh a@a.local ssh b@b.local) without a problem.