On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:31:59AM +0100, Tom Freeman wrote: > 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.
Forget the backslashes unless you are prepared to do something like "/home/tdf/Draft\\\\ text\\\\ \\\\-\\\\ with\\\\ Holley\\\\ comments.doc" or worse. You have to nest differing quotes as shown in my example. > > 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 > -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember Cernan and Schmitt -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
