RE: Those darned 'ol spaces in path/file names...

2005-02-10 Thread Clay Goss
Wayne, Wayne': ssh -l user domainname.com ls -la '/disk2/larry\ jones/bonnie\ jones/' Becomes: rsync -e ssh -vazP "/bob smith/sally smith/" @domainname.com:'/disk2/larry\ jones/bonnie\ jones/' Thank you! You da Man! And the interesting thing is that I now believe I understand why one mus

Re: Those darned 'ol spaces in path/file names...

2005-02-10 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:42:08PM -0500, Clay Goss wrote: > rsync -e ssh -vazP '/bob smith/sally smith/' > @domainname.com:'/disk2/larry jones/bonnie jones/' Word-splitting is caused by ssh executing the command using the remote shell, so you typically need to not only escape spaces for your loca

Those darned 'ol spaces in path/file names...

2005-02-09 Thread Clay Goss
Folks: I am really struggling with the "spaces in the path/file name" thing. Some stuff I have figured out - some I haven't. Take this one: Source: - PC with WindozeXP Pro - Cygwin (just updated) - Files in folder (from cygwin root) /bob smith/sally smith