transferring files with spaces in them with putty's pscp

Question

I tried the following to no avail:

pscp -load test username [email protected]:"file name.ext" "file name.ext"

pscp -load test username "[email protected]:file name.ext" "file name.ext"

pscp -load test username [email protected]:"file\ name.ext" "file name.ext"

pscp -load test username "[email protected]:file\ name.ext" "file\ name.ext"

pscp -load test username [email protected]:"c:\\path\to\\file\ name.ext" "/home/username/file\ name.ext"

pscp -load test username "[email protected]:c:\\path\to\\file\ name.ext" "/home/username/file\ name.ext"

Both returned me a More than one remote source not supported error.

Is it just not possible?

With Cygwin `scp` I normally quote _and_ escape the spaces, which seems to work. eg. `'file\ name.txt'` Putty's `pscp` might be similar. — Mike Fitzpatrick, Jun 27 '14 at 01:20
Didn't work for me :( I updated my orig post to include my attempts with the escaped space. — neubert, Jun 27 '14 at 01:30
I think you have to specify the path also. eg. `[email protected]:/path/to/file\ name.ext`. — Mike Fitzpatrick, Jun 27 '14 at 01:32
The username and host should be on the target eg. `pscp -load test "c:\path\to\file name.ext" "[email protected]:/home/username/file\ name.ext"` You're already logged into Windows, so you don't need to specify local credentials. And you don't need to escape the space for the Windows filename. — Mike Fitzpatrick, Jun 27 '14 at 01:42
@neubert, are both machines Windows or is the remote machine *nix? — Mike Fitzpatrick, Jun 27 '14 at 01:45
@neubert, also, can you successfully transfer a file _without_ spaces in the filename? — Mike Fitzpatrick, Jun 27 '14 at 01:47
@Mike Fitzpatrick - I can indeed transfer without spaces. It's spaces that cause the problem. The machine I'm downloading to is Windows. The one I'm downloading from is Ubuntu. And the command you proposed is for uploading, not for downloading. — neubert, Jun 28 '14 at 04:01

transferring files with spaces in them with putty's pscp

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