Is there some way to block this guy? I got a similarly helpful personal reply to my question...
- Bryan On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:39, alex conway <seton...@gmail.com> wrote: > fuck off > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 2:41 AM, <travis+ml-rs...@subspacefield.org>wrote: > >> 1) >> >> deleting path/to/(Something) Word Word Anotherword--Word Word.pdf >> IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion >> >> I think either the -- is causing it to fail, or more likely, the next >> filename, which it didn't bother to print out, which has an ampersand >> in the name, causes it to fail. >> >> I am using SSH as a substrate, of course, and I think you guys failed >> to escape things, so the ampersand is hosing your protocol somehow. >> >> 2) >> >> I am also aware that when rsyncing to a foreign system, you have to >> "double escape" filenames - if the target has a space in it, you must >> use not one, but two sets of quotes. Since you can't nest double >> quotes or single quotes, this means that you have to use both. >> >> This is fairly annoying, for a number of reasons, including the >> difficulty of doing variable substitution (single quotes prevent it, >> so you gotta bust out for the variable and then back in), and the fact >> that it's not intuitive at all. >> -- >> I'm not sleeping; I'm regenerating. | >> http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ >> My emails do not usually have attachments; it's a digital signature >> that your mail program doesn't understand. >> If you are a spammer, please email j...@subspacefield.org to get >> blacklisted. >> >> -- >> Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. >> To unsubscribe or change options: >> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync >> Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >> > > > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- PS. Check out the Brush newsletter: *Subscribe or read our previous newsletters* <http://brush.co.nz/newsletters> Bryan Hoyt, *Web Development Manager* -- Brush Technology *Ph:* +64 3 741 1204 *Mobile:* +64 21 238 7955 *Web:* brush.co.nz
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