[Linux-disciples] Rsync Question

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

> On Nov 21, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Jason Smith wrote:
> >I have been using rsync to copy directories to and from a remote 
> >server. Am having one problem and perhaps I am not seeing the answer 
> >that should be right in front of me. If the directory at the source 
> >has a space in the name, rysnc is returning an error. For example,
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 06:23:34PM -0500, James Forrest wrote:
> Try putting quotes around the path, as in:
> rsync -vrP smith at domain.net:"/directory1/Multiple Word Directory" ~/
> >rsync -vrP smith at domain.net:/directory1/Multiple\ Word\ Directory ~/

Yeah, quotes should work, or you could do double, or maybe triple,
escapes (i.e., slashes).  The problem is that you need the host on the
other end to parse the escaped space, not the host on your end.

By the time rsync establishes an ssh connection at domain.net to run
rsync --server, the slashes are already gone, having been parsed by the
command line interpreter (bash or tcsh or whatever) on your end.  If you
escape the slash itself, it will come across as a slash to the other
side.

In other words:

rsync -vrP smith at domain.net:/directory1/Multiple\\\ Word\\\ Directory ~/

(untested)
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Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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