I am trying to copy a file that has colons and periods, e.g., with:

```
scp "test.json-2014-08-07T11:17:58.662378" remote:tmp/

scp test.json-2014-08-07T11\:17\:58.662378 remote:tmp/

```

and combinations with file:

```
scp "file:///home/.../test.json-2014-08-07T11:17:58.662378" remote:tmp/

```

My guess is that scp tries to interprete parts of the file as a server and/or port number. How do I avoid that?

If I rename the file to test.json then `scp test.json remote:tmp/` works ok, but not even `scp test*62378 remote:tmp/`works.