https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13901
Bug ID: 13901 Summary: Empty quotes adds cwd to SRC directories Product: rsync Version: 3.1.3 Hardware: x64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component: core Assignee: wa...@opencoder.net Reporter: daniel@grundstrom.email QA Contact: rsync...@samba.org Created attachment 15076 --> https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=15076&action=edit For cmd 'rsync "$UNSET_VAR" --debug=ALL5 --verbose --recursive -- /data/src/ /data/dest/' Hi! It's my first bug report here so let me know if I should clarify anything! If you add empty quotes to the rsync command line, it is interpreted as the current working directory ("."), and added to the SRC args. It doesn't matter if the quotes come before or after any options, if it comes before "--" or if there are other source directories specified. This is a problem if you specify quoted bash variables on the command line and one of them happens to be unset. /data/cwd $ ls file-i-dont-want-to-copy.txt /data/cwd $ rsync "$UNSET_VAR" --recursive --verbose -- /data/src/ /data/dest/ sending incremental file list file-i-dont-want-to-copy.txt file-i-want-to-copy.jpg sent 819,001 bytes received 54 bytes 1,638,110.00 bytes/sec total size is 818,581 speedup is 1.00 I have attached the output of the command with '--debug=ALL5' added, if it helps. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. -- 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