Bug 586

Summary:	Syntax error on local to local copy (escaping required)
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Luke Ross <lukeross>
Component:	scp	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P2
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux

Description Luke Ross 2003-06-04 01:33:42 AEST

When trying to upload a file, I inadvertently missed off the trailing ':' to
make it remote copy, so scp attempted to local copy, using "exec cp".  However
scp didn't reescape the filenames:

$ scp /home/mp3/Kosheen\ -\ Catch\ \(original\).mp3 lukeross@1.2.3.4
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
sh: -c: line 1: `exec cp /home/mp3/Kosheen - Catch (original).mp3 lukeross@1.2.3.4'
$

Comment 1 Ben Lindstrom 2003-06-04 02:10:27 AEST

This is the same behavior as rcp.  To change this may/will break existing 
scripts.

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2004-04-14 12:24:19 AEST

Mass change of RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED