I've been playing around with SCP for a while, and I've been able to transfer files from one place to another. It all worked nicely until I needed to copy a file from Ubuntu to a Windows user who had spaces in his username (* groan *)
While I got it working for SSH like this:
ssh "User Name Spaces"@192.168.0.42
It didn't work with SCP:
scp "myfile.txt" "User Name Spaces"@192.168.0.42:folder
As it returns:
User Name Spaces: invalid user name
I've tried all kinds of things:
scp "myfile.txt" "User Name Spaces"@192.168.0.42:folder
scp "myfile.txt" "User\ Name\ Spaces"@192.168.0.42:folder
scp "myfile.txt" "User\\ Name\\ Spaces"@192.168.0.42:folder
scp "myfile.txt" "User\\\ Name\\\ Spaces"@192.168.0.42:folder
scp "myfile.txt" "'User Name Spaces'"@192.168.0.42:folder
scp "myfile.txt" "'User\ Name\ Spaces'"@192.168.0.42:folder
scp "myfile.txt" "'User\\ Name\\ Spaces'"@192.168.0.42:folder
scp "myfile.txt" "'User\\\ Name\\\ Spaces'"@192.168.0.42:folder
scp "myfile.txt" "'User Name Spaces'@192.168.0.42":folder
And so on... but nothing seems to work
Does anyone have any ideas?