Use spaces in smbclient mkdir

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I'm trying to use smbclient in a bash script to make a directory on a remote windows server.

Whilst this works:

smbclient -U "DOMAIN/$username" "//remoteserver/folder with spaces" --directory "Another folder with spaces/" -c "mkdir /newfolder/"

This doesn't:

smbclient -U "DOMAIN/$username" "//remoteserver/folder with spaces" --directory "Another folder with spaces/" -c "mkdir /folder to create with spaces/"

Instead a folder simply called 'folder' is created. I've tried many variations like the following:

"mkdir /folder\ to\ create\ with\ spaces/"
"mkdir '/folder to create with spaces/'"
'mkdir '/folder to create with spaces/''

but can't seem to find the magic combination.

manpreet 2 years ago

These com/tag/options">options should work:

• -c 'mkdir "com/tag/folder">folder to create with com/tag/spaces">spaces"'
• -c "mkdir \"com/tag/folder">folder to create with com/tag/spaces">spaces\""