scp -rp Week09 one@10.10.5.80:"/some/remote/path/with a space/"

Gives me an error:

scp: ambiguous target
 

The issue is caused by the space in the remote path which needs to be escaped like this:

scp -rp Week09 one@10.10.5.80:"/some/remote/path/with\ a\ space/"

Basically you add a backslash in front of each space.

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