On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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 >> > > Well, I am perplexed! The simple backslash escape of the space works! After 23 emails back and forth I feel I have led you all on a wild goose chase! My notes say clearly that the backslash escape was the first thing I tried. I even pasted the text from my default.conf file into a text file to document what I was doing. I am convinced that I did something stupid, but I have no idea what that something was/is. I appreciate your willingness to help. Apologies to all. -Denis
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