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Escaping quotes for scp

I needed to write a that behaves correctly with nasty (spaces, braces, etc..) filenames. scp -rv "$1" shiny:/Volumes/Seagate3To/\"$1\" This function works, but I don't understand why the quotes ...
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How to scp folders with nasty names using a shell function

I am trying to write a function that I will put on all my machines in order to make it easy to send files at a fixed place on my network. Here is my script so far. Some folder may have duplicates ...