I was looking for help with linux SCP and spaces in file names. I found a somewhat helpful link here: http://www.thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/blog/14-05-2007/how-to-scp-a-path-with-spaces
Its advice didn't work for me out of the box, however.
What I ended up doing instead that did work was this:
scp -r 'myserver.com:"/path/with/a/Space\ In\ It' ./
Which is to say that I single-quoted the whole source argument and single-escaped each space.
I'm dealing with left-parentheses similarly:
scp -r 'myserver.com:"/path/with/a/Space\(s)\ In\ It' ./
Looks like there are other characters I need to escape, like single quotes, but I'm not going to worry about those right now. If you have any idea about escaping those in this context, please leave a comment.
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