rsync - Dec 2003 - Rsyncing Windows directory to a Linux box: problem with spaces in directory names

Hello,

I am trying to rsync folders/files hosted on a Windows machine to a
Linux machine. Many of the directory names have spaces in them.
How can I list them in a file so that the --include-from option use
them correctly?
Thanks!

Charles
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http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/

Charles Nadeau wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to rsync folders/files hosted on a Windows machine to a
> Linux machine. Many of the directory names have spaces in them.
> How can I list them in a file so that the --include-from option use
> them correctly?
> Thanks!
> 
> Charles
try\ escaping\ the\ spaces\ like\ this
"or perhaps quoting"

Mike

> > I am trying to rsync folders/files hosted on a Windows machine to a 
> > Linux machine. Many of the directory names have spaces in them.
> > How can I list them in a file so that the --include-from option use 
> > them correctly?
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Charles
> 
> try\ escaping\ the\ spaces\ like\ this
> "or perhaps quoting"
I just include them with the spaces and it works fine. This is with
Redhat 8 or 9.

Max

Mike wrote:
> Charles Nadeau wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am trying to rsync folders/files hosted on a Windows machine to a
>> Linux machine. Many of the directory names have spaces in them.
>> How can I list them in a file so that the --include-from option use
>> them correctly?
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Charles
> 
> try\ escaping\ the\ spaces\ like\ this
Mike,

I tried and I got:

building file list ... link_stat /diskbox/Anciens\ : No such file or
directory
link_stat projets : No such file or directory
done
IO error encountered - skipping file deletion
./
> "or perhaps quoting"
I tried and I got:

building file list ... link_stat "/diskbox/Anciens : No such file or
directory
link_stat projets" : No such file or directory
done
IO error encountered - skipping file deletion
./

I tried with both and got:

building file list ... link_stat "/diskbox/Anciens\ : No such file or
directory
link_stat projets" : No such file or directory
done
IO error encountered - skipping file deletion
./

Thanks for your advise!
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
-- 
Charles-E. Nadeau Ph.D
http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/

Max Kipness wrote:
>> > I am trying to rsync folders/files hosted on a Windows machine to
a
>> > Linux machine. Many of the directory names have spaces in them.
>> > How can I list them in a file so that the --include-from option
use
>> > them correctly?
>> > Thanks!
>> > 
>> > Charles
>> 
>> try\ escaping\ the\ spaces\ like\ this
>> "or perhaps quoting"
> 
> I just include them with the spaces and it works fine. This is with
> Redhat 8 or 9.
Max,

Here are more details on the problem.

The complete script I am using can be found there:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/contributed/rob_bos. The
command from this script that cause me problem is: rsync -va --delete
--modify-window=2 --delete-excluded
--exclude-from=$excludefile $backup $backuproot/$type.1/

Where:
$backup=`cat /etc/snapshot/include.text`
$backuproot=/backup
$excludefile=/etc/snapshot/exclude.text
$type=hourly

/etc/snapshot/include.text contains:
/diskbox/Mariage/*.tdk
/diskbox/Mariage/*.ppj
/diskbox/Outlook/
/diskbox/PourCD/
/diskbox/Toburn/
/diskbox/Anciens projets/

/etc/snapshot/exclude.text contains:
diskbox/Mariage/*.AVI
diskbox/Mariage/*.wmv
diskbox/Mariage/*.rm
diskbox/Mariage/*.mp2
diskbox/Outlook/Outlook/*.*

When I execute the script above with a directory name containing space in
include.text, I get the following error message:

building file list ... link_stat /diskbox/Anciens : No such file or
directory
link_stat projets/. : No such file or directory
done
IO error encountered - skipping file deletion
./

Anything I could do besides trying to escape the space or putting the whole
directory between double quote?
Thanks!

Charles
> 
> Max
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Charles-E. Nadeau Ph.D
http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:05:50AM +0900, Charles Nadeau
wrote:
> Max Kipness wrote:
> 
> >> > I am trying to rsync folders/files hosted on a Windows
machine to a
> >> > Linux machine. Many of the directory names have spaces in
them.
> >> > How can I list them in a file so that the --include-from
option use
> >> > them correctly?
> >> > Thanks!
> >> > 
> >> > Charles
> >> 
> >> try\ escaping\ the\ spaces\ like\ this
> >> "or perhaps quoting"
> > 
> > I just include them with the spaces and it works fine. This is with
> > Redhat 8 or 9.
> 
> Max,
> 
> Here are more details on the problem.
> 
> The complete script I am using can be found there:
> http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/contributed/rob_bos. The
> command from this script that cause me problem is: rsync -va --delete
> --modify-window=2 --delete-excluded
> --exclude-from=$excludefile $backup $backuproot/$type.1/
> 
> Where:
> $backup=`cat /etc/snapshot/include.text`
> $backuproot=/backup
> $excludefile=/etc/snapshot/exclude.text
> $type=hourly
> 
> /etc/snapshot/include.text contains:
> /diskbox/Mariage/*.tdk
> /diskbox/Mariage/*.ppj
> /diskbox/Outlook/
> /diskbox/PourCD/
> /diskbox/Toburn/
> /diskbox/Anciens projets/
> 
> /etc/snapshot/exclude.text contains:
> diskbox/Mariage/*.AVI
> diskbox/Mariage/*.wmv
> diskbox/Mariage/*.rm
> diskbox/Mariage/*.mp2
> diskbox/Outlook/Outlook/*.*
> 
> When I execute the script above with a directory name containing space in
> include.text, I get the following error message:
> 
> building file list ... link_stat /diskbox/Anciens : No such file or
> directory
> link_stat projets/. : No such file or directory
> done
> IO error encountered - skipping file deletion
> ./
> 
> Anything I could do besides trying to escape the space or putting the whole
> directory between double quote?
> Thanks!
Move up one level.

Instead of $backup being a list of directories in /diskbox
back up /diskbox

	rsync -va --delete --modify-window=2 --delete-excluded \
	--exclude-from=$excludefile /diskbox $backuproot/$type.1/

and have the exclude.text narrow the file list ala:


+ /Mariage/
+ /Mariage/*.tdk
+ /Mariage/*.ppj
- /Mariage/*/
+ /Outlook/
+ /PourCD/
+ /Toburn/
+ /Anciens projets/
- /*
/Mariage/*.AVI
/Mariage/*.wmv
/Mariage/*.rm
/Mariage/*.mp2
/Outlook/Outlook/*.*

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