> Heh.. no sooner than I post this, it gets solved by my
> neighbour... this might help someone else, so here is the
> solution...
> opts='-rav --modify-window=2 --stats --partial --compress --timeout=30
> "localhost::module_name/dir/file with spaces.doc" "/smb/dir/dir with
> spaces/" '
> eval rsync $opts
Or without re-evaluating (beware: it's bash specific): using an array
and quoting it when calling rsync:
opts=(-rav --modify-window=2 --stats --partial --compress --timeout=30
"localhost::module_name/dir/file with spaces.doc" "/smb/dir/dir with
spaces/")
rsync "${opts[@]}"
