How to escape "()" characters in commad

Steven Levine steve53 at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 28 10:58:22 MDT 2010


In <1288035867443-3012707.post at n4.nabble.com>, on 10/25/10
   at 12:44 PM, rlinsurf <rlinsurf at dhnet.us> said:

Hi,

>localhost:volumes jeffrey$ /usr/local/bin/rsync -avv --protect-args
>'Jeffrey Ellis\ s iPhone \(Root\)'/ 'Macintosh
>HD'/Users/jeffrey/Downloads/iphone_backup
>sending incremental file list
>rsync: change_dir "/Volumes/Jeffrey Ellis\?\#200\#231s iPhone \(Root\)"
>failed: No such file or directory (2)
>delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole-file

>I'm lost.

What's the result of

chdir "/Volumes/Jeffrey Ellis\?\#200\#231s iPhone \(Root\)"

from the command line?

You might try adding --itemize-changes.  It's often more helpful than
additional -v's.

Steven

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