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bash-completion package

  1. Bug #482753
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 482753

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

You say "overescapes", but scp is buggy at a protocol level and actually does require this double-escaping. Demonstration:

  <cjwatson@riva ~>$ touch 'file with spaces'
  <cjwatson@sarantium ~>$ scp riva:file\ with\ spaces .
  scp: file: No such file or directory
  scp: with: No such file or directory
  scp: spaces: No such file or directory
  <cjwatson@sarantium ~>$ scp riva:file\\\ with\\\ spaces .
  file with spaces 100% 0 0.0KB/s 00:00

Are you quite sure that your patch is correct, in light of this?