ha!
you nailed it! i was under the impression the double quotes were
necessary to name the file path. i got rid of them and the upload
worked like a charm! thanks a ton!

now on to figuring out how to get this to work on multiple sites.

cheers,
sam

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 03:19:04PM -0600, Samuel Fitz wrote:
>> thanks for the quick response. so i'm realizing now that my example
>> was a little misleading. after reading through other submissions, i
>> think i misinterpreted how on submits a question. in other words i
>> altered the file path to make it more generic. here is another try
>
> Making it generic likely hid the true problem in this case.
>
>> with a little less ambiguity:
>>
>> curl -T "/Users/samfitz/vm/vertical-sites/VM\ Pubs\ -\
>> GTR-ACA/images/site/test.gif"
>> ftp://******:*******@www.allacadia.com//www/allacadia.com/images/site/
>
> When quoting spaces in file names on the command line, you should use
> either double quotes or backslashes--not both.
>
>> again i apologize for my ignorance, but what do you mean by turning up
>> the verbosity?
>
> Add the -v option to the command-line.
>
>>>> Dan
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