Just wrap the `pwd` in quotes to escape spaces. It’s just literally wrapping the output of pwd in a string “”.
$ > scp `pwd`/my_file.png foo # reads pwd spaces as argument separator $ > scp "`pwd`"/my_file.png foo
Dec
28
2011
Just wrap the `pwd` in quotes to escape spaces. It’s just literally wrapping the output of pwd in a string “”.
$ > scp `pwd`/my_file.png foo # reads pwd spaces as argument separator $ > scp "`pwd`"/my_file.png foo
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