Filenames with blanks

[Ivan kovalev]

I do scan SRC. I have there a big set of files and I need to have a latest
subset on TARG. Therefore I could not just say: transfer whatever is not
on TARG. This is the reason to check only newer files.

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, jw schultz wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 10:05:26AM -0400, Ivan kovalev wrote:
> > I did not see Tim's note and what you tell about it sounds like
> > misunderstanding.
> >
> > I am scanning src_host for files changed during last $days to update my
> > targ_dir on targ_host. Yes, if I do whole directory from the source
> > host, it works fine with "foo bar" files. The reason I do not want this is
> > because I need a subset of files only. Imagine big archive from which I
> > need to update just last couple of days.
>
> Your example does not scan src_host it scans targ_host.
>
> What is the basis for selecting the subset?  Your example
> only diferentiates on time and filetype and rsync does time
> internally.
>
> > You are right about -r option: it does nothing when I operate on the list
> > of files.
> >
> > Quotes: I do put them around COM ( tried even "\"$COM\""). It looks to me
> > like if I put quotes inside COM, then rsynk looks for filenames
> > that include quotes as part of the name. If the qoutes are outside, then
> > none of the files with blanks in the name could be found because they
> > are treated as 2 files.
> >
> > So, what is the correct syntax for quoting?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, jw schultz wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 06:09:21PM -0400, Ivan Kovalev wrote:
> > > > Command like this:
> > > >     rsync  -rxlupogtSvve ssh
> > > > $src_host:"/home/wss_disk/calendar.data/'Conference Calls'" $targ_dir
> > > > works fine with blanks embeded in the file name.
> > > > When I try to script it like this:
> > > >     COM='`find '$src_dir'  -mtime -'$days' -type f `'
> > > >     rsync  -rxlupogtSvve ssh  $src_host:"$COM" $targ_dir
> > > > works fine on regular filenames, but does not see the ones with blanks
> > > > in the middle.
> > > >
> > > > I changed my COM to pipe through little script to produce the same
> > > > output where either the whole filepath or just the file name will be
> > > > quoted (as in the first example). That breakes it complitely and this
> > > > version does not work even for single word files. Output looks like
> > > > this:
> > > > .......................
> > > > receiving file list ...
> > > > link_stat /home/wss_disk/calendar.data/'Conference : No such file or
> > > > directory
> > > > link_stat Calls' : No such file or directory
> > > > link_stat /home/wss_disk/calendar.data/'Economic' : No such file or
> > > > directory
> > > >
> > > > I probably am missing something simple, but could not figure what is it.
> > > > Please advise. Thank you.
> > >
> > > As Tim pointed out scanning $dest_host for files that
> > > were recently modified to overwrite them if they were
> > > changed on the $src_host makes very little sense.
> > >
> > > rsync handles file names with spaces just fine if you let
> > > it.  Why do you think you need to create this file list in
> > > the first place when you are using the -r option?
> > >
> > > Based on your design decisions i doubt that you quite
> > > understood  understood what Tim meant by a list so i'll
> > > illustrate.  Your find operation means that $COM is set to
> > > something like
> > > 	/home/wss_disk/calendar.data/Conference foo
> > > 	/home/wss_disk/calendar.data/Economic bar
> > >
> > > The result being this command line
> > > 	rsync  -rxlupogtSvve ssh $src_host:"/home/wss_disk/calendar.data/Conference foo /home/wss_disk/calendar.data/Economic bar" $targ_dir
> > >
> > > Putting quote marks inside $COM won't protect the spaces.
> > > The quotes have to be outside of $COM.
> > >
> > > If you can explain why you need the find instead of doing
> > > 	rsync  -rxlupogtSvv -e ssh $src_host:$src_dir/ $targ_dir
> > > I'll be glad to show you how.
> > >
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> > > 	J.W. Schultz            Pegasystems Technologies
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