[PLUG] dirvish/rsync problem [resolved]

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 16:45:55 UTC 2015


On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I posted something about this a while ago.  Since then, I have been having
> exchanges with folks on dirvish.org.  The issue seems to boil down to how
> to enter a directory name containing a space in the tree: directive.  The
> latest version is tree: '/home/household/VirtualBox\ VMs/'
>
> This produces an error:
> rsync: change_dir "/home/household//'/home/household/VirtualBox VMs/'"
> failed: No such file or directory (2)
>
> The summary ACTION statement may have clues to what is happening:
> ACTION: rsync -vrltH --delete --stats -D --numeric-ids -pgo
> '/home/household/VirtualBox VMs/'/
> /mnt/backup/dirvish-bank/R2D5-VboxVMs/2015-09-08-Tue-08:13:57/tree
>
> Anybody here have ideas of what caused the strange interpretation of the
> tree: entry?  Since dirvish is a pearl program, maybe some pearl experts
> here can offer some ideas.
>
> Thanks,
> -Denis
>

Turns out that the first thing I tried, a backslash escape of the space,
now works! I have no idea of what stupid thing I was doing wrong then, and
likely will never know.  Thank you for your indulgence.

-Denis



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