Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 13:23:02 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Chris <cpuburner@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants Message-ID: <CAHu1Y72KKXkTca69QsqNLj44BgMOEmMNVERA5VCv1d-4MfU7VA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKFHi=_W_sC-agEEpq%2Bco9MvvqBt1Ee3W8VEtL-sKwkYa-7yAg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKFHi=_W_sC-agEEpq%2Bco9MvvqBt1Ee3W8VEtL-sKwkYa-7yAg@mail.gmail.com>
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I just use tar for this. ( cd /path/to/src ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /path/to/obj ; tar xf - ) - M On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Chris <cpuburner@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to > USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and folder names > which have spaces, similar to the following: > > ./foo bar/some name.tar.gz > ./foo bar/child dir/some other name.tar.gz > > I've tried various combinations of cp with enclosing the top level > directory in quotations, along with other commands like tar or xargs =A0t= o no > avail. The problem seems to be with creating the destination directories > and folders, where mkdir/cp terminates with an invalid argument response. > > Cleaning up the source filenames using something like detox isn't viable, > as the files are being served by transmission-daemon, and as such the nam= es > must be preserved. Permissions are not an issue either, as the same > responses occur whether I use a standard or root account. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, since I'm pretty much out of them > at this point. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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