On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Paul Slootman <p...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue 08 Sep 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > > tree: '/home/household/VirtualBox\ VMs/' > > > > Using this .conf, I still get an error: > > rsync: change_dir "/home/household//'/home/household/VirtualBox VMs/'" > > failed: No such file or directory (2) > > The fact that rsync is explicitly showing those single quotes from your > config line tells me that those aren't working how you think they > should. > > As a test I added a vault with spaces in the tree, and strange things > happened with the tree name as-is; from the summary: > > tree: /tmp/This is a directory > ... > ACTION: rsync -vrltH --delete -D -pgo --stats --numeric-ids > --exclude-from=/tmp/dirvish/x/20150909/exclude /tmp/Thi/ > /tmp/dirvish/x/20150909/tree > > How it gets from "/tmp/This is a directory" to "/tmp/Thi/" is weird... > > However, with this it works: > > tree: /tmp/This\ is\ a\ directory > > No messing with any quotes. > I really appreciate your efforts to understand what is going on. The "/tmp/Thi/" result matches what I got. I *believe* that my first attempts to deal with this was to just use backslashes, which resulted in truncating the character before the backslash, the same as the weird result above. But I will give it another attempt. Maybe I made a stupid error. > > > > And another question: Is it possible to use a symlink to avoid the issue > > of the space in the directory name? > > Yes. > > $ cd /home/household > $ ln -s VirtualBox\ VMs VirtualBox-VMs > > and then use /home/household/VirtualBox-VMs in your dirvish config. > This is great! If I cannot solve it with escapes, I will go this route. Thanks again for all your help. (Is this something that should be communicated to the developers?) -Denis > > > Paul >
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