[cheese65536]

Also, what is the correct way to use scp copy remote files with a space in the name? I usually end up just using wildcards (or rsync), but that can behave incorrectly with similarly named files.

  $ touch '/tmp/test file'
  $ scp localhost:'/tmp/test file' .
  scp: /tmp/test: No such file or directory
  scp: file: No such file or directory
  $ scp localhost:'/tmp/test?file' .
  test file                                     100%    0     0.0KB/s   00:00

Edit: I'll answer my own question, which I clearly never thought about much, since the answer is obvious. I need to escape the space within the string.

  $ scp localhost:'/tmp/test\ file' .
  test file                                     100%    0     0.0KB/s   00:00