Comment 3 for bug 482753

Hi,

This patch doesn't actually change the input passed to scp, but rather alters the way that scp completes on the bash prompt.

For example, say on the remote server I have:

~/Hello Folder One
~/Hello Folder Two
~/Hello Different Three

Typing:

scp -r remote:~/Hell[TAB]

will result, with this patch with:

scp -r remote:~/Hello\\\

Now, in the old system if you then went:

scp -r remote:~/Hello\\\ F[TAB]

Nothing would happen. The \\\ was incorrectly handled when asking for a directory listing to then parse with sed.

With the patch, the prompt now reads:

scp -r remote:~/Hello\\\ Folder\\\

as would be expected, and you can continue.

Once the line is complete (scp -r remote:~/Hello\\\ Folder\\\ O[TAB] -> scp -r remote:~/Hello\\\ Folder\\\ One) you can press enter and the scp action will continue correctly (because the line still uses \\\)

tl;dr: the patch keeps \\\ on the command line, but just parses them correctly when it tries to get a remote directory listing