rsync - Feb 2004 - Log formatting: quoting format option flags in Perl

Hello,
I'm having trouble with setting desired punctuation and spaces with log 
formatting in a perl script.

The log-format options I am using are  --log-format=%h%a%l%o%f%t%u%c. Full 
rsync command at end of this message.

When I run the rsync command and write the results to a file,
$results = `$rsyncstr 2>&1`,
my log format options are ignored if I have the options quoted in the 
command, and the log is unreadably compressed if I leave off the quotes. 
I've tried qq//, escaped \", escaped \',  and many other ways of
escaping
quotes. Any suggestions?

Full rsync string:

rsync -Cclrtvzn --log-format="%h %a %l %o %f %t %u %c" /localdir 
user@server:/remotedir

Many thanks,
Shifra


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Shifra Raffel
Programmer/Analyst
California Digital Library
University of California Office of the President
Oakland, CA
Shifra.Raffel@ucop.edu

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:19:52PM -0800, Shifra Raffel
wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm having trouble with setting desired punctuation and spaces with log
> formatting in a perl script.
> 
> The log-format options I am using are  --log-format=%h%a%l%o%f%t%u%c. Full 
> rsync command at end of this message.
> 
> When I run the rsync command and write the results to a file,
> $results = `$rsyncstr 2>&1`,
> my log format options are ignored if I have the options quoted in the 
> command, and the log is unreadably compressed if I leave off the quotes. 
> I've tried qq//, escaped \", escaped \',  and many other ways
of escaping
> quotes. Any suggestions?
> 
> Full rsync string:
> 
> rsync -Cclrtvzn --log-format="%h %a %l %o %f %t %u %c" /localdir 
> user@server:/remotedir
This is not an rsync issue.  It is a perl issue.

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