rcp Files containing ":"

[Christian Schulze]

I have Problems to rcp Files containing the special Character ":".

My Database creates compressed Backup-copies of the controlfiles every hour. The filename looks like control.ctl-18.08.04-11:02:01.Z

My problem is when I try to rcp this file, rcp recognizes the part before the : as a hostname and thus fails.

I tried some variants, but these didnt't work either

I use rcp create copies of the (important) controlfiles an archivelogs on another System.

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

Have you tried putting the files inside single or double quotes?

sks

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
try to use double quotes:

rcp "control.ctl-18.08.04-11:02:01.Z" ...



extract from "man rcp"

Shell metacharacters in
remote paths can be quoted with backslash (\), single quotes (''), or
double quotes (""), so that they will be interpreted remotely.

HTH,
Massimo

[Christian Schulze]

no, double quotes and single quotes don't work either

rcp "control.ctl-18.08.04-11:02:01.Z" target:/archivelogs

rcp 'control.ctl-18.08.04-11:02:01.Z' target:/archivelogs

rcp control.ctl-18.08.04-11\:02\:01.Z target:/archivelogs

all of them give an error:
rcmd: control.ct-18.08.04-11: Unknown host

It looks as if rcp doesn't know about quoting the filename

Christian

[Massimo Bianchi]

try

rcp "control.ctl-18.08.04-11:02:01.Z" target:/archivelogs/"control.ctl-18.08.04-11:02:01.Z"

because the command extend your input and substitute the missing file name.

Or, if you can afford different names:

NEWNAME=$( echo $OLDNAME | tr ":" "_" )

rcp $OLDNAME target:/dest/$NEWNAME


HTH,
Massimo

[Sanjay Kumar Suri · Accepted solution]

Can you give the host name also in the rcp command as below?

rcp host1:/ora0/file1.txt host2:/ora0/temp/file1.txt

sks

[Christian Schulze]

Sorry Massimo, your idea doesn't work either ...

Bingo, Sanyay is right

rcp source:/logdir/"control.ctl-18.08.04-11:02:01.Z" target:/archivelogs/"control.ctl-18.08.04-11:02:01.Z"
works

Thanks guys

I was already thinking of a workaround with tar pipe and remsh ...


Christian

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi,
As sanjay has already pointed out about servername, this works perfectly fine for me.

# rcp servername:/control.ctl-18.08.04-11:02:01.Z .

Regards,