Error with paths with ()'s

[Joe]

I haven't used rsync with networks, but I do use bash a lot.

First, let me state the obvious. It looks like your code is executing 
rsync in a bash one liner once for each file that find returns. That's 
not cool! And it's almost definitely not what you wanted to do.

Among other things, that means that bash is seeing all those embedded 
blanks and the parentheses in your file names and getting upset because 
blanks delimit arguments and parentheses are used for a number of 
syntactically meaningful things.

So, at a minimum, you need to escape/quote *both* of your file 
references {} - not just the one.

But the real issue is that you should probably let find put all the 
resulting file names into a file or pipe and send that to rsync once 
using something like
            --files-from=FILE       read list of source-file names from FILE
where you should be able to use "-" as the file name so it uses the 
output of the find command as input to rsync.

Once you get that sorted, any remaining errors should be a lot easier to 
fix.

Joe


On 08/17/2015 02:13 AM, @lbutlr wrote:
> I was trying to process a bunch of folders to sync them to another drive and ran across an error I haven’t seen before. Normally I do this sync via a mounted file system, but this time I tried to do it over ssh:
>
> find . -type f -atime -1 -exec rsync -aP {} 10.0.0.11:/Volumes/Drive5/{} \;
> bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> bash: -c: line 0: `rsync --server -logDtpre.iLsfx --log-format=X --partial . /Volumes/Drive5/./Taxes (2012)/W2 (2012).pdf'
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [sender=3.1.1]
>
> If I mount Drive5 and run the same command, it works fine.
>
> Put "/Volumes/Drive5/{}” in quotes doesn’t help.
>
> Ideas?
>