On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:02:50PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
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> On 2007/04/11 13:41, Bryan Irvine wrote:
> > scp root@somebox:"a\ b" .
> 
> you have to escape to *both* your local shell, and the remote shell

This has always seemed silly to me.  Does anyone intentionally use

   $ scp host:"a b" .

instead of

   $ scp host:"{a,b}" .

or

   $ scp host:a host:b .

or is just that having whatever does the globbing on the host not
split at white space too difficult?