SFTP: Unable to download if filename begins with space

[Florian Schweikert]

Tried to download file over sftp with space at begin of filename gives me:

path/filen name: open for read: no such file or directory

seems to trim filename.

Filezilla 3.5.0_x86_64

[Rajvihar]

Hi Kelvan..

I want to work on this bug... Can you share with me more information on this.. Is anyone else working on it?

[Florian Schweikert]

Hi Rajvihar,

I don't have much informations, just tested it again on Arch amd64 with filezille 3.5.3:

Upload to sftp:
local:/home/kelvan/Desktop/ testfile => remote:/tmp/ testfile
-> no problem

On remote machine:
-rw-r--r-- 1 kelvan users 0 Jul 10 14:54 \ testfile

filezilla shows the file as "testfile" without space.

Status: Starting download of /tmp/testfile
Command: get "testfile" "/home/kelvan/Desktop/testfile"
Error: /tmp/testfile: open for read: no such file or directory
Error: File transfer failed

[rajesh]

hey Rajvihar, have you fixed this bug??? I wanted to work on this since the problem still persists.

[tsm_sf]

This problem still exists in 3.6.0.2

(drove me nuts until I was able to find this page)

[electroglyph]

Same problem exists with leading spaces in directory names.

See my post here for error log:
​https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=30003

[Alexander Schuch]

According to ​a StackOverflow post, SFTP output maybe can properly handle any kind of spaces

[Alexander Schuch]

This is a duplicate of #5315.