Re: Secuer copy (scp) issue

John,

Spaces like that are considered "whitespace" unless included in quotes or preceded by a backslash. As such, they have no meaning, and are typically stripped by the shell.

Can you explain what you're trying to accomplish? Why do you want four spaces here when they're to be ignored anyway?

Presumably, therefore, you are trying to find a way so that they are not ignored -- and this is where I'm getting lost. Which parameter are they, therefore, to belong to, and why?

-SK



On 8/14/2013 9:16 AM, John McKee wrote:

Employer exchanges data with a company using scp. Company decided to
replace existing server.. I have no idea what is on the other end.

There are two scripts. Each ends with an scp command that looks like this:

scp -v ${PEDID}@${SERV}:${PATHE}$1 ${PATHO}

Currently, there are four spaces between $1 and ${PATHO}. But, the
log shows no spaces at all. Which is an error.

I have tried

${PATHE}$1 \ ${PATHO}

thinking the internal field separator is causing the blanks to be
removed. No change. I even put everything following the -v inside
double quote characters. That didn't work either, but maybe I put them
in the wrong place.

Guy on the other end is clueless. He believes the problem is with the
SERV variable. I have told him, several times, that the connection is
being made to the server AND authenticated.

I am running out of ideas.

I have suggested to him, several times, that IFS might be involved.


Any suggestions?

John McKee