Problems with spaces in filenames in scripts

[Francis Montagnac]

> Heh.. no sooner than I post this, it gets solved by my
> neighbour... this might help someone else, so here is the
> solution...
 
> opts='-rav --modify-window=2 --stats --partial --compress --timeout=30 
> "localhost::module_name/dir/file with spaces.doc"  "/smb/dir/dir with
> spaces/" '

> eval rsync $opts

Or without re-evaluating (beware: it's bash specific): using an array
and quoting it when calling rsync:

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[@]}"