rsync - Feb 2007 - DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4371] New: unable to rsync filenames with whitespace from remote source

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4371

           Summary: unable to rsync filenames with whitespace from remote
                    source
           Product: rsync
           Version: 2.6.8
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org
        ReportedBy: tim@thewunders.org
         QAContact: rsync-qa@samba.org


When trying to rsync files located on a remote server using:
  rsync -av remote.domain.com:/path/to/files/with\ whitespace/
/path/to/local/destination

The rsync fails with a message similar to:
receiving file list ... rsync: link_stat "/path/to/files/with" failed:
No such
file or directory (2)
rsync: link_stat "/root/whitespace/." failed: No such file or
directory (2)
done
client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the
--recur
sive option?
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(723)

Doing the transfer the other way works. For example:
  rsync -av /path/to/files/with\ whitespace/
remote.domain.com:/path/to/local/destination 
would copy the files properly.

This is tested from CentOS 4.4 with rsync 2.6.3 and Fedora Core 4 and 6 using
rsync 2.6.8.


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wayned@samba.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID




------- Comment #1 from wayned@samba.org  2007-02-06 11:28 MST -------
Please read the ADVANCED USAGE section of the man page where the interpretation
of spaces in the remote args is explained.  You can read it online, if you
like:

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html


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------- Comment #2 from wayned@samba.org  2007-02-06 11:42 MST -------
One other suggestion for those times when you are scripting an rsync pull of
arbitrary files where it is unknown if spaces (or other shell-interpreted
characters) are present or not:  the use of the --files-from option will pass
the name(s) without any need for quoting.


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