Jerry Fleming wrote:
> Xicheng Jia wrote:
> > Jerry Fleming wrote:
> >> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> >>> On 2006-08-21, Jerry Fleming wrote:
> >>>> I have a list (about 600) of files whose names contain special
> >>>> characters, such as spaces, &, (. Under bash, they have to be escaped. I
> >>>> was wondering if there is any command, or even a piece of sed, which can
> >>>> be used to escape them.
> >>> How are you using the names?
> >>>
> >>> The usual method is to quote the file name:
> >>>
> >>> for file in ./*
> >>> do
> >>> cat "$file"
> >>> done
> >>>
> >> I am using the names with scp:
> >>
> >> scp special_file root@host:~/"special_file"
> >>
> >> Here I have to quote the destination special_file twice, one with double
> >> quotes, one with escapes. Only double quotes won't work. I am wondering
> >> how to escape special chars of filenames in a script.
> >
> > If you dont want to change the destination filename, then use 'dot' is
> > enough, and no need to add ~/ to specify home directory(default).
> >
> > scp "$special_file" root@host:.
> >
> > But if the SRC of scp command isn't a shell variable, then using
> > single-quotes is safer:
> >
> > scp 'special_file' root@host:.
> >
> > you can also use TAB auto-completion, shell can add proper backslashes
> > for you.
> >
> > Xicheng
> >
> Thanks for all your . But I am using scp in a non-interactive
> script, so auto-completion is no , and I do want the destination
> filename to be different than the source. I have to escape the special
> chars with backslashes. The problem is that I don't know where to insert
> the backslashes in the filenames and where.

You don't need to insert backslashes, use the way Chris mentioned in
his previous post(some minor modification):

scp 'src_special_name' root@host:"'dest_special_name'"

scp "$src_special_val" root@host:"'$dest_special_val'"

Be careful with the positions of single-quotes(inside) and
double-quotes(outside) in the DESC part.

Good luck,
Xicheng