FILE NAME WITH SPACES -- this is 4 different space-separated parameters fed from the shell to the program "FILE NAME WITH SPACES" -- this is one parameter fed from the shell to the program FOLDER-NAME/ -- this is one parameter and means all the files in the directory FOLDER-NAME/ FOLDER-NAME -- this is one parameter and means the directory FOLDER-NAME/ (and presumably taking all the contents with the directory)
Unless the program does something special to parse out the spaces in the parameters, what you are seeing is normal behavior. I assume that the directory names with spaces are actually subdirectories of whatever you are backing up, ie those name you specify on the command line. You can also use wild-cards in addition to the names with spaces to give the illusion that it understands. > -----Original Message----- > From: rsync-boun...@lists.samba.org > [mailto:rsync-boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Larry Alkoff > Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:04 PM > To: Rsync > Subject: Handling spaces in filenames > > Man rsync says that > "If you need to transfer a filename that contains whitespace, > you'll need to either escape the whitespace in a way that the remote > shell will understand, or use wildcards in place of the spaces.". > > I am regularly doing backups with rsync and notice that files > names with > a space in them copy properly, without any special escape or other > characters. > > Is this a change in rsync? > Is the warning in the man page no longer needed? > > I will say that my 'filenames' with spaces are mostly (if not all) > directory names so perhaps rsync knows to handle directory > names better > than file names. > > Can anyone enlighten me? > > Larry > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the > mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html