Re: Latest versions of cygwin - Paths with spaces

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 18.05.2022 um 15:24 schrieb Giovani Erthal:
> I'm using the windows terminal.
So you call cygwin rsync directly from the Windows cmd or powershell? 
That is asking for trouble, especially if quoting is involved. You 
should call rsync from a cygwin shell.
>
> Using lowercase for the drive and double quotes between the path produces a different error.
>
> rsync.exe -avz -s --no-perms --no-owner --no-group --chmod=ugo=rw "/cygdrive/c/Users/giova/Downloads/Teste com Espaço" "/cygdrive/c/Users/giova/Downloads/Destino com espaço"
>
> sending incremental file list
> rsync: [sender] change_dir "/cygdrive/c/Users/giova/"/cygdrive/c/Users/giova/Downloads" failed: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync: [Receiver] change_dir#3 "/cygdrive/c/Users/giova/"/cygdrive/c/Users/giova/Downloads" failed: No such file or directory (2)
> rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at main.c(822) [Receiver=3.2.4dev]
> ________________________________
> De: Giovani Erthal
> Enviado: terça-feira, 17 de maio de 2022 21:00
> Para: cygwin@cygwin.com <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Assunto: Latest versions of cygwin - Paths with spaces
>
> I'm using rsync to perform backups. But I have errors in paths with spaces.
>
> Source: C:\Users\giova\Downloads\Teste com espaço
> Destination: C:\Users\giova\Downloads\Destino com espaço
>
> Command:
>
> rsync.exe -avz -s --no-perms --no-owner --no-group --chmod=ugo=rw /cygdrive/C/Users/giova/Downloads/Teste" "com" "Espaço /cygdrive/C/Users/giova/Downloads/Destino" "com" "espaço
>
> Result:
>
> sending incremental file list
> rsync: link_stat "/cygdrive/C/Users/giova/Downloads/Teste" "com" "Espaço" failed: No such file or directory (2)
>
> sent 18 bytes  received 12 bytes  60.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1178) [sender=3.1.2]
>
> Initially I was using cwrsync 6.2.4 (it has the same problem). Using cwrsync 5.5.0 everything works perfectly.
>
> Now I downloaded cygwin and installed rsync (latest version), but the problem is the same.
>
> How to make this work without using an old version of cygwin?
>