> The point is that the original escaping DOUBLE escapes an equals sign: > foo\\\=bar > It shouldn't, there's no reason to.
If you paste into your command line: rsync -e ssh\ -l\ backup\ -i\ /etc/synco/id_rsa\ -o\ ConnectTimeout\\\=60\ -o\ BatchMode\\\=yes The list of arguments would be (i.e. the values in ARGV): ['rsync', '-e', 'ssh -l backup -i /etc/synco/id_rsa -o ConnectTimeout\=60 -o BatchMode\=yes'] The command ssh -l backup -i /etc/synco/id_rsa -o ConnectTimeout\=60 -o BatchMode\=yes Is a correct and valid shell command. When RSync parses this in do_cmd, it should convert the '\=` sequence into '=' but it doesn't.. This intuition is derived from the fact that if you instead passed the string to `system('ssh -l backup -i /etc/synco/id_rsa -o ConnectTimeout\=60 -o BatchMode\=yes')` that the ARGV generated would be ['ssh', '-l', 'backup', '-i', '/etc/synco/id_rsa', '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=60', '-o', 'BatchMode=yes']. Basically, even if there WAS no reason to do so, doesn't mean it's invalid or undesirable. In theory, even passing in -e \\s\\s\\h should be valid. On 30 October 2016 at 01:13, Paul Slootman <paul+rs...@wurtel.net> wrote: > On Sat 29 Oct 2016, Samuel Williams wrote: > >> I'm not proposing some additional characters to split on, but quite >> the opposite, to handle the backslash escaped spaces correctly and NOT >> split. Rest assured, there is no bug with the original escaping. For >> your edification: >> >> $ echo \I\'\m\ \a\ \s\t\r\i\n\g >> I'm a string > > The point is that the original escaping DOUBLE escapes an equals sign: > foo\\\=bar > It shouldn't, there's no reason to. > > > Paul > > -- > 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