On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:16:29 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Using scp to copy files from one openSUSE 11.1 box to another, for
>> example, spaces (escaped and quoted) always cause me a problem.
> 
> Well, yeah, scp is the wrong tool to use for almost everything, based on
> the concept that it's safe to log in remotely to a machine using the
> normal login mechanisms and then bet that stdin and stdout are parsable.
> :-)

I suppose I *could* use rsync, hadn't really thought about it much. :-)

Jim

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