On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 07:01:22PM +0100, Lukáš Doktor wrote: > Hello Rich, > > by any chance do you know whether it's possible to escape ':' in "virt-customize" command? I'm trying to upload a file: > > --upload '/etc/yum.repos.d/_copr\:copr.devel.redhat.com\:ndokos\:pbench.repo:/etc/yum.repos.d/' > > tried various combinations of doubling the ':' or escaping them and so on, but it always considers the first ':' as splitter. It's not possible because the function always splits on the first ':'... https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs-common/blob/41126802097f0a864cab... ... but there's several workarounds. * Make a local copy of the file; you can still give the full name when you upload: $ cp /etc/yum.repos.d/_copr:copr.devel.redhat.com:ndokos:pbench.repo tmp.repo $ virt-customize .. --upload tmp.repo:/etc/yum.repos.d/full:name:including:colons.repo * If the file is small, --write + --move. * Use --copy-in (if you can copy the whole directory). * Use guestfish or the API. Rich.