-e escape rule

[Kevin Korb]

A \  is a shell escape.  Every level of shell consumes one level of
escape.  For every session of a shell every example "\ " becomes " " and
every example of "\\" becomes "\".

The raync command line is a mix of local shell commands + commands run
via a remote shell via ssh.

The simple fact is that if only \ escapes are used, the local shell will
utilize those escapes and rsync will never see them.

For every level of shell an escape \ does its job.

If you want rsync to interpret a space char as other than whitespace
then a \ is one way to do so.

But one we are talking about the other side of an rsync we are talking
about a local command line that consumes a \.  Then we are talking about
a remote command line that consumes another \.  So, within the -e
parameter, multiple stacked \ characters are required.

Simply put, it is absolutely absurd to \ escape an rsync command line
while interpreting the subshell -e parameter and the remote shell
parameters the same way.

At best you are insisting that ssh do something entirely nonsensical
while ensuring that the first s in "ssh" is interpreted as an "s".


On 10/28/2016 10:10 PM, Wayne Davison wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 5:39 AM, Samuel Williams
> <space.ship.traveller at gmail.com <mailto:space.ship.traveller at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>     Rsync passed the backslashes through without dealing with them.
> 
> 
> Yeah, it only does space-splitting and that's all it will ever do. It
> still looks to me like there is a bug in the original escaping, since
> any command receiving that string is receiving a backslash that is not
> supposed to be there. It should only be escaping the string enough to
> get it to rsync, not trying to guess what rsync is going to do with it
> after it gets it.
> 
> To work around that bug, you could consider using an ssh-calling shell
> script instead of manually specifying the ssh command and args to rsync.
> 
> ..wayne..
> 
> 

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