From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 5 22:15:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A52106564A for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 22:15:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpuburner@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C429E8FC12 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 22:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by faar19 with SMTP id r19so5730975faa.13 for ; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:15:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=aKwO52whiB6l5fUUdsrKhrCZAKGT3GRdAmSrPtYSXlA=; b=vEhnm491L12JcOQN8BGXiL3pFqxpd3HdTv8eqzGpUGyvlug02JXP4USZrUMdqb8tdE O+EWef6ssJQfbqoeAaWuiLHkf8bioriBLrAZwm3cr1gX1OyGnDZQNbRfI+r8q3TPfWnP +XIv1RCr1A2c6o5AEID2Mzn7K0L8juEev+bYA= Received: by 10.223.91.82 with SMTP id l18mr32380060fam.30.1320531336115; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:15:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.96.200 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:15:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <44d3d6paww.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <44ty6insu2.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> From: Chris Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 18:15:16 -0400 Message-ID: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:15:39 -0000 I apologize for the lack of detail. The command I'm using is: ( cd /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads/ ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd /mnt/usb ; tar xf - ) I've also tried: cp -afv /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads /mnt/usb rsync -aq /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads /mnt/usb find . -print0 | xargs -0 -I "{}" cp "{}" /mnt/usb #when in source directory Filesystem on USB drive is FAT32, 32k blocksize, 16GB capacity, formatted on a Windows 7 box.