Dear Monks, I need your esteemed wisdom.
I am trying to run an scp command on a ermote system which I am pretty sure is being split at the whitespace between the 2 arguments. I have tried every trick in my library to no avail. How do I avoid the command being split into 2 lines? The code is below:
$command = "scp $user\@$ip:$source/$_ $staging/$_";<br>
print("$command\n");<br>
system($command);<br>

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and the output:
scp daylite_backup@192.168.0.53:/home/staging/dayliteLeads/courseBooki
+ngs/1116932421807.xml
<br> /dayliteImports/staging_courses/1116932421807.xml
<br>
usage: scp [-pqrvBC1246] [-F config] [-S program] [-P port]<br>
           [-c cipher] [-i identity] [-l limit] [-o option]<br>
           [[user@]host1:]file1 [...] [[user@]host2:]file2<br>
sh: line 2: /dayliteImports/staging_courses/1116932421807.xml: No such
+ file or directory

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Janitored by holli - added code tags

In reply to system call and newline interpretattion. by jaimeGonz

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