Hi, Thanks for the quick response, I tried out what you said and this is what I found.
This works: /usr/bin/rsync --rsh=/usr/local/openssh/bin/ssh -avu --delete "/export/home/tdf/Draft text - with Holley comments.doc" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tdf/ But no matter how you put it, I can't seem to escape out the destination file name. So this doesn't work /usr/bin/rsync --rsh=/usr/local/openssh/bin/ssh -avu --delete "/export/home/tdf/Draft text - with Holley comments.doc" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tdf/Draft text - with Holley comments.doc" neither does this /usr/bin/rsync --rsh=/usr/local/openssh/bin/ssh -avu --delete /export/home/tdf/Draft\ text\ \-\ with\ Holley\ comments.doc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tdf/Draft\ text\ \-\ with\ Holley\ comments.doc at least not with my shell. This is a bit of a problem because I'm using rsync within a wrapper written in Perl and I really don't want to have to rewrite the Perl code to account for this limitation... can anyone think of a way to escape out the destination file name so that rsync does not complain? Your help is much appreciated, Regards, Tom -----Original Message----- From: Greger Cronquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 May 2003 11:12 To: Tom Freeman Subject: Re: Rsyncing Problem with - character! Usually, when using quotes, you skip ecape-characters. Depending on your shell, both /usr/bin/rsync --rsh=/usr/local/openssh/bin/ssh -avu --delete "/export/home/tdf/Draft text - with Holley comments.doc" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tdf/Draft text - with Holley comments.doc" and /usr/bin/rsync --rsh=/usr/local/openssh/bin/ssh -avu --delete /export/home/tdf/Draft\ text\ \-\ with\ Holley\ comments.doc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tdf/Draft\ text\ \-\ with\ Holley\ comments.doc should work. I prefer the former, though you could simplify it to /usr/bin/rsync --rsh=/usr/local/openssh/bin/ssh -avu --delete "/export/home/tdf/Draft text - with Holley comments.doc" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tdf/ Regards Greger Tom Freeman wrote: >Dear Rsync Users, >Please can I have a bit of rsync advice? > >I am trying to rsync a file called. > >'Draft text - with Holley comments.doc' from machine a to machine b. > >Unfortunately this isn't working because I think rsync recognises the - >character and thinks it's an option. > >I have tried escaping this out as well as putting it all in " " but >neither seems to work though... > >This is the command I am running and the message I am getting. > >rsync: on remote machine: -: unknown option >rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(875) >rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) >rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150) > >/usr/bin/rsync --rsh=/usr/local/openssh/bin/ssh -avu --delete >"/export/home/tdf/Draft text \- with Holley comments.doc" >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tdf/Draft text \- with Holley >comments.doc > >Any ideas what I can do to make this work? > >Cheers, >Tom > > > > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
