RE: Handling spaces in filenames

2009-08-11 Thread Tony Abernethy
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 -- th

Re: Handling spaces in filenames

2009-08-12 Thread Larry Alkoff
Hello Tony. I'm a little unsure what you are telling me to do. For the first 2 cases FILE NAME WITH SPACES and "FILE NAME WITH SPACES" it seems that you are telling me to quote all file names. For the 3rd and 4th cases you seem to be saying it is not necessary to quote FOLDER-NAME/ or FOLDER-NA

Re: Handling spaces in filenames

2009-08-12 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On 11.08.2009 21:04, Larry Alkoff wrote: > 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 do

Re: Handling spaces in filenames

2009-08-12 Thread Larry Alkoff
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: On 11.08.2009 21:04, Larry Alkoff wrote: 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 space