On Tue 08 Mar 2005, Clay Goss wrote: > Subject: RE: Strangeness with rsync
> Ok. I have done some experimenting with the ""file has vanished:" problem. > > The most recent file I had exhibiting this problem was named: > > "University Student's Realty Associates Power Point.ppt" > > It did not exist on the receiving side of the rsysc after the run. I > manually created the mount to the windows PC share and navigated to the > file. I could list it with "ls" but could not "cat" it - got an error that > "The file did not exist." Did you cut and paste the filename from the ls output, or did you try typing it in when you tried the cat? > Just for giggles, I named it back to: > > "University Student's Realty Associates Power Point.ppt" > > It rsynced fine and now I can access it through the mount from a shell > terminal. There are many files on the "source" system with "'" in their > name, so I know the problem is not the using of the "'", but rather with how > it is coded. > > Perhaps, this is related to other posts concerning "8bit" vs. "UTF8" vs. > "iso8859-1" vs. etc. character coding. Yes, it most probably was not a "normal" single quote, but e.g. an apostrophe. Try doing 'ls -b' next time. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
