Rsync with spaces in source or destination path

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, paresh masani wrote:

> Hi, I am trying to transfer a file that has spaces in its name. The rsync
> gives me below error. Am I doing anything wrong?
>
> #ls -l /tmp/test\ file
> -rw-rw-r--   1 xxx  xxx        0 Jul  5 02:23 /tmp//test file
>
> # /usr/local/bin/rsync --archive /u/masanip/ACH/test\\\ file /tmp/mydir/
> rsync: link_stat "/tmp/test\ file" failed: No such file or directory (2)

Don't you see it: one / too much.


Viele Gruesse
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)

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