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Posted: **Thu May 19, 2011 9:19 am**

I've been working on a download completion script that checks if a remote host is online and if so, rsyncs the file over and then marks it for removal from transmission once the seed ratio is reached (by another cron script). Or If the remote host is down it adds the torrent details to a queue file.

My only problem so far is that rsync is a complete pain when dealing with paths that have spaces in them

for example: /home/user/Folder One/folder two/file.or.folder

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rsync -acKPqrze ssh --timeout 30 "$TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME" $REMOTEUSER@$REMOTEHOST:"$TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME"

sends the file over to /home/$REMOTEUSER/Folder where Folder is the actual file.

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rsync -acKPqrze ssh --timeout 30 "$TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME" $REMOTEUSER@$REMOTEHOST:'"$TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME"'

sends the file over but then rsync tries to rename it to whatever it's supposed to be called the remote host doesn't know what $TR_TORRENT_DIR and $TR_TORRENT_NAME so tries to rename it to "/" and fails

I've also tried padding $TR_TORRENT_DIR etc with the escape characters or replacing the spaces with ? marks but then rsync interprets them directly as "\ " or "?" and cannot find file "/home/user/Folder\ One/..." or "/home/user/Folder?One/..."

i've trolled around the rsync man-page 'til i'm blue in the fingers and have come up empty.
single & double quotes aren't working unless i don't use a variable. if i type it out manually it works great in both instances.
escaped quotes don't work at all.
question marks for the spaces don't work either

so aside from this not being directly transmission related, any ideas on how to convince rsync to behave?

Posted: **Thu May 19, 2011 4:05 pm**

rsync does not deal with the environment variables itself. Your script environment is probably bad. Take a look at this script and change to your liking. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10364

Posted: **Thu May 19, 2011 5:02 pm**

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rsync -acKPqrze ssh --timeout 30 "$TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME" $REMOTEUSER@$REMOTEHOST:'"$TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME"'

on above, what happens if you just reverse the order of the single and double quotes around the target:

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rsync -acKPqrze ssh --timeout 30 "$TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME" $REMOTEUSER@$REMOTEHOST:"'$TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME'"

this solves a similar problem for me using scp in ssh so it might work here.

Posted: **Fri May 27, 2011 8:26 am**

the reason seems to be that anything in single quotes is treated literally... (like so)

so now i just...

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echo "rsync $SYNCARGS "$TR_TORRENT_DIR/$TR_TORRENT_NAME" $REMOTEHOST:'\"$TR_TORRENT_DIR\"'" >> $SYNCTMPFILE
chmod +x $SYNCTMPFILE
$SYNCTMPFILE && goodsyncfunction $TR_TORRENT_ID || badsyncfunction $TR_TORRENT_ID
rm $SYNCTMPFILE

and that seems to work fine... i'll have another look at it if the need arrises but as always, making do works

thanks anyway.

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Completion script to rsync files from seedbox

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