HP-UX

Hello,
I wnat to transfer files of the following format:

A20110711.1230+0300-1245+0300_BNC46(TEST).4609401144_AREA.xml.gz

Unfortunatelly file transfer works only if aI transmit the files without: + - ( ) characters.

However I can touch files that contains + - not () characters.

Is there a way to transfer these files ?

Thank you in advance.

Try escaping the ( ) with \

The filename appears to be valid in modern FTP and unix. It does contain characters which have special meaning to unix Shell.
If you needed to create such a name in unix bourne-type Shell you would need quotes round the name e.g.:

Code:

touch "A20110711.1230+0300-1245+0300_BNC46(TEST).4609401144_AREA.xml.gz"

I can't see any problem with typing the filename at a FTP prompt but if you were to present it via a Shell Script you must pay attention to stopping Shell from interpreting the special characters (notably the brackets).
e.g.

Code:

my_filename="A20110711.1230+0300-1245+0300_BNC46(TEST).4609401144_AREA.xml.gz"
touch "${my_filename}"

A general warning: It is possible to create all sorts of weird filenames in unix but this does not mean that backup software or applications will be able to deal with them.
I would avoid Shell special characters, control characters and space characters in filenames.

ftp> put A20110711.1230+0300-1245+0300_BNC46(TEST).4609401144_AREA.xml.gz
200 PORT command successful.
550 A20110711.1230+0300-1245+0300_BNC46(TEST).4609401144_AREA.xml.gz: Permission
denied on server. (Filename (accept))
ftp>

Problem remains :-(

Though this thread is under HP-UX, are both the computers actually running HP-UX? If not, what Operating Systems are they running?

Client (put) is windows therefore I cannot escape \ characters. Server is HP-UX

Please state exact versions of each Operating System.

First impression is that this is either a very old HP-UX or a very old Windows. I tried your filename from modern HP-UX and modern Windows with no problem. This does not in any way mean that I endorse such complex filenames.

Second impression is that the system design is flawed. Just avoid using any character in a filename which is special to either MSDOS or Unix and avoid space characters, hyphens and colons like the plague. Many MSDOS virus scanners will quarantine files containing more than one period character.