"No such file" while trying to download file with backslash and space in filename with Paramiko
Question:
Trying to create local server. When downloading to client files without whitespaces such as abc.txt, hello-world.png everything works. But there is a problem with downloading files like hello world.txt. Program throws
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file
Simplified example of my code:
# generating paramiko connection
t = paramiko.Transport((host, port))
t.connect(username=user, password=password)
sftp = paramiko.SFTPClient.from_transport(t)
remote_path = "/home/user/file.txt"
local_path = "/home/localuser/file.txt"
sftp.get(remote_path, local_path) # completing with no errors
remote_path = "/home/user/second file.txt"
local_path = "/home/localuser/second file.txt"
sftp.get(remote_path, local_path) # FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file
Answers:
I assume that the file is actually called second file.txt, not second file.txt. You might be confused because in shell one way to escape the space in the file name is using the backslash (though imo more common is to quote the filename). In Paramiko, you do not need to escape the filename (you cannot actually).
Trying to create local server. When downloading to client files without whitespaces such as abc.txt, hello-world.png everything works. But there is a problem with downloading files like hello world.txt. Program throws
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file
Simplified example of my code:
# generating paramiko connection
t = paramiko.Transport((host, port))
t.connect(username=user, password=password)
sftp = paramiko.SFTPClient.from_transport(t)
remote_path = "/home/user/file.txt"
local_path = "/home/localuser/file.txt"
sftp.get(remote_path, local_path) # completing with no errors
remote_path = "/home/user/second file.txt"
local_path = "/home/localuser/second file.txt"
sftp.get(remote_path, local_path) # FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file
I assume that the file is actually called second file.txt, not second file.txt. You might be confused because in shell one way to escape the space in the file name is using the backslash (though imo more common is to quote the filename). In Paramiko, you do not need to escape the filename (you cannot actually).