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From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@cs.utk.edu>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Cc: Deliverable Mail <deliverable@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: colons in names to scp
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:58:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060209215823.GA26650@cetus5.cs.utk.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c737f300602091258o49d1902cke43c6d7219db125e@mail.gmail.com>

Deliverable Mail sent me the following 1.2K:

> I need to copy files via scp from a zsh script.  Say, $1 holds a file
> name containing ':'.  When I do
>
> scp $1 $host:$dir
>
> I get an error from scp, treating the prefix of $1 before : as a
> source host name.  What's the right way to quote it -- '$1' would
> preclude interpolation of $1, which is exactly why $1 is used in the
> first place..

I don't think quotation will fix your problem.  $1 is being read as a
single entity by scp.  It just thinks looks like something else.
Escaping doesn't seem to work, but Google revealed this:

   scp ./$1 $host:$dir

-- 
Chris Johnson
cjohnson@cs.utk.edu
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~cjohnson


      reply	other threads:[~2006-02-09 21:58 UTC|newest]

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