On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Jordan Windsor <jordanw2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm unable to get rsync to handle a particular directory which >> contains spaces within its name. >> Here's the command I run and the output: >> >> [jordan@archpc Program Files]$ rsync -rve 'ssh -p 2222' Steam >> archlap:/mnt/media/larissa-wine/drive_c/Program\ Files > > The way the space is escaped there at the end probably needs some > tweaking. Note that the space is escaped in the current shell, and > rsync receives 'archlap:/mnt/media/larissa-wine/drive_c/Program Files' > as the last argument. I'm not sure how it's handled after this point, > but either of the following ways should work: > > 1) archlap:/mnt/media/larissa-wine/drive_c/Program\\\ Files > 2) archlap:'/mnt/media/larissa-wine/drive_c/Program\ Files' > Thank you, It's working now.
