Shell Programming and Scripting

I have two servers in subject, say server1 and server2. I have shell scripts on server1. We have a directory on server2 from where the files need to be scp to server1.

The directory on server2 is having space in its name.

I have script on server1 that takes the directory path of server2 as a parameter and scp the file from server2 to server1. I am unable to supply the directory path of server2 as an input to the shell script on server1.

Need assistance to nullify the space in the directory name.

Have tried to use the \ slash once , twice, thrice...all the efforts failed.

Help needed.

Try enclose it in double quotes.

Or single quotes, or use ? where the space occurs.

The most universal is:-

Code:

cd "/full/path to/some drawer/with spaces/"<CR>

Note the inverted commas.

This method works on Linux/UNIX, OSX, AMIGAOS and Windows...

I guess you have to switch to sftp or ssh to cd. I recall that sometimes with ftp I had to cd to the desired dir one level at a time, but then transfers would work that were not working with slashes. And of course if you can scp you can ssh, where the quoting may work more reliably.

Code:

ssh id@host 'cat "/a/b c/d/e/f" ' >"/a/b c/d/e/f" 
 
and 
 
ssh id@host 'cat >"/a/b c/d/e/f" ' <"/a/b c/d/e/f"

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