Problems with spaces in filenames in scripts

[Joseph Miller]

I've got some (bash) shell scripts which I'm using to call rsync based
on command-line options passed to the script. The problem I'm having is
with spaces in the filenames/paths.


I can do:

---
rsync -rav --modify-window=2 --stats --partial --compress --timeout=30 
"localhost::module_name/dir/file with spaces.doc"  "/smb/dir/dir with
spaces/"
---

on the command line, or explicitly in a script, this works fine.

However.. when I invoke it from a script, like this:

---
opts='-rav --modify-window=2 --stats --partial --compress --timeout=30 
"localhost::module_name/dir/file with spaces.doc"  "/smb/dir/dir with
spaces/" '

rsync $opts
---

I get messages like:

rsync: getaddrinfo: "localhost 873: Name or service not known
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(85)

Or if I try just quoting the module/path part, ie
localhost::"module_name/dir/file with spaces.doc"

then I get:

@ERROR: Unknown module '"module_name'
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (94 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(139)

Or if the destination path has spaces (and the server/module part
doesn't) then I get:

receiving file list ... done
mkstemp "/smb/dir/.dir.w5Kcqq failed



I've tried double quoting them as well ie:
'"localhost::module_name/dir"' as suggested in the FAQ-o-Matic, but this
still doesn't work..... The most perplexing part is that this only
occurs in scripts which pass the command-line options in a variable..

Has anyone else encountered this before? Had any luck? Help?
Sugesstions?



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