The source path quoting is just normal shell stuff. The target path quoting is parsed by a second level of shell and thus needs nested quoting. Whether you quote the path part or not is irrelevant. What matters is that you double quote.
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So all of these work: a\ b c@d:e\\\ f "a b" "c@d:e\\ f" 'a b' "c@d:'e f'" It doesn't matter where the outer level of quoting is, "c@d:'e f'" and c@d:"'e f'" are precisely identical as far as scp sees.
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