Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> OK... well I have a situation now where the source path (tree: )
> contains a space. I can't get the quotes passed to the rsync command
> line. So far, the following attempts to specify the path have not worked.
> tree: "/home/database backups"
> tree: /home/"database backups"
> tree: /home/database[ ]backups
> tree: /home/database[.]backups
> tree: /home/database backups
> tree: /home/database\ backups
> tree: /home/database\\ backups
>
> I even tried
>
> tree: [/home/database backups]
>
> to no avail. As soon as the dirvish scripts see that space in the path
> the path gets truncated. If I modify the rsync command posted in summary
> and put quotes around the source path, all is well.
Interesting :(
You didn't try:
tree: "/home/database\ backups"
Does that work?
It seems what I said earlier is too simplistic. There is another feature
in dirvish that becomes involved. From the dirvish man page:
tree: path [alias] (S)
So you have to escape the space with a backslash to prevent dirvish
interpreting it as an alias and then you have to quote the whole path so
it appears as a single path on the rsync command line.
A patch to the docs (or at least to the wiki) would be useful, I feel.
FWIW, the way I discovered this is simply to step through dirvish with
the debugger. It removes magic from programs :)
One reason I suspect I've never encountered this is that I always run
rsync daemons, so my tree never has a space or an alias!
Cheers, Dave
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