On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
