rsync - Mar 2011 - two bugs in rsync 3.0.6 - ampersands in filenames, double quoting required

1)

deleting path/to/(Something) Word Word Anotherword--Word Word.pdf
IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion

I think either the -- is causing it to fail, or more likely, the next
filename, which it didn't bother to print out, which has an ampersand
in the name, causes it to fail.

I am using SSH as a substrate, of course, and I think you guys failed
to escape things, so the ampersand is hosing your protocol somehow.

2)

I am also aware that when rsyncing to a foreign system, you have to
"double escape" filenames - if the target has a space in it, you must
use not one, but two sets of quotes.  Since you can't nest double
quotes or single quotes, this means that you have to use both.

This is fairly annoying, for a number of reasons, including the
difficulty of doing variable substitution (single quotes prevent it,
so you gotta bust out for the variable and then back in), and the fact
that it's not intuitive at all.
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 06:41:26PM -0800, travis+ml-rsync at subspacefield.org
wrote:
> deleting path/to/(Something) Word Word Anotherword--Word Word.pdf
> IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
> 
> I think either the -- is causing it to fail, or more likely, the next
> filename, which it didn't bother to print out, which has an ampersand
> in the name, causes it to fail.
> 
> I am using SSH as a substrate, of course, and I think you guys failed
> to escape things, so the ampersand is hosing your protocol somehow.
Actually, I'm unable to replicate the error with some test files with the
exact same names.

Just to test the escaping, I tried creating this dir:

(Word) Word Word Word--Word & Word (Word Word.).ext
id&"id&
id&"id&`id`

I was expecting to find some shell-escapes, so I threw those last two in for
good measure.

I was able to create and delete those filenames on the target properly.

So I didn't find the shell escape I was looking for.

This time it failed when trying to delete a file containing the word
G\#303\#266del

I wonder if there's some issues with Unicode...
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fuck off

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 2:41 AM, <travis+ml-rsync at subspacefield.org>
wrote:
> 1)
>
> deleting path/to/(Something) Word Word Anotherword--Word Word.pdf
> IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
>
> I think either the -- is causing it to fail, or more likely, the next
> filename, which it didn't bother to print out, which has an ampersand
> in the name, causes it to fail.
>
> I am using SSH as a substrate, of course, and I think you guys failed
> to escape things, so the ampersand is hosing your protocol somehow.
>
> 2)
>
> I am also aware that when rsyncing to a foreign system, you have to
> "double escape" filenames - if the target has a space in it, you
must
> use not one, but two sets of quotes.  Since you can't nest double
> quotes or single quotes, this means that you have to use both.
>
> This is fairly annoying, for a number of reasons, including the
> difficulty of doing variable substitution (single quotes prevent it,
> so you gotta bust out for the variable and then back in), and the fact
> that it's not intuitive at all.
> --
> I'm not sleeping; I'm regenerating. |
> http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/
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> that your mail program doesn't understand.
> If you are a spammer, please email john at subspacefield.org to get
> blacklisted.
>
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