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
jordan@archlap's password:
sending incremental file list
created directory /mnt/media/larissa-wine/drive_c/Program
Steam/
Steam/AppUpdateStats.blob
Steam/CSERHelper.dll
Steam/ClientRegistry.blob
Steam/GameOverlayRenderer.dll
Steam/GameOverlayRenderer.log
Steam/GameOverlayUI.exe
Steam/GameValidation.log
Steam/Steam.dll
Steam/Steam.exe
Steam/SteamUI.dll
Steam/SteamUI_1289.mst
Steam/Steam_61.mst
Steam/Support.url
Steam/ThirdPartyLegalNotices.doc
Steam/WriteMiniDump.exe
Steam/dbghelp.dll
Steam/mss32_s.dll
Steam/steam.ico
Steam/steam.log
Steam/steam_1289_assert_2010_7_6T17_13_2C0.mdmp
Steam/steam_1289_assert_2010_7_8T16_47_28C0.mdmp
^CKilled by signal 2.
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at rsync.c(543) [sender=3.0.7]

I killed the program before it continued, It created a directory on
the destinations with the name "Program" when it should have sync'd
the Steam folder within the "Program Files" directory.
Here's the output of ls -l in the destination directory parent:

[jordan@archlap drive_c]$ ls -l
total 1572
drwxr-xr-x 3 jordan users 4096 Jul 10 13:26 Program
drwxrwxr-- 6 larissa users 4096 Jul 10 12:55 Program Files
-rwxrwxr-x 1 larissa users 1588224 Jun 16 17:42 SteamInstall.msi
drwxrwxr-x 4 larissa users 4096 Jun 16 17:27 users
drwxrwxr-x 14 larissa users 4096 Jun 19 21:08 windows
drwxrwxr-x 2 larissa users 4096 Jun 16 23:49 winetrickstmp
[jordan@archlap drive_c]$

The jordan users is part of the "users" group and has the correct permission.

Thanks!

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Jordan Windsor <jordanw2@gmail.com> 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'