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[topguy]

Can we see the output from your script also ?

Have you tried:

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REMOTE="\"/tmp/remote file.jpg\""

[topguy]

http://linux.die.net/Bash-Beginners-Gui ... 03_03.html

Maybe using singlequotes together with escaping the spaces is a solution.

Spaces in filenames are the source of all evil anyway, avoid at all cost.

[jojopi]

LOCAL="~/Desktop/local file.jpg"

Tilde expansion is inhibited by double quotes. You can write LOCAL=~/"Desktop/local file.jpg", or LOCAL="$HOME/Desktop/local file.jpg".

scp host:$QQREMOTE $QLOCAL

Both variables have embedded spaces. You need them to be passed to scp as two arguments, and not four. This can only be achieved by putting the expansions inside double quotes, not by inserting quotes or backslashes into the variables' contents. Using quotes protects the arguments from the local shell, so only the remote argument needs extra protection:

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scp host:"$QREMOTE" "$LOCAL"

(Word splitting of variable expansions is practically never desirable, so you should practically always put double quotes around variables.)