Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:47:20 -0400 From: Chris <cpuburner@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: recursive copy with spaces in descendants Message-ID: <CAKFHi=_W_sC-agEEpq%2Bco9MvvqBt1Ee3W8VEtL-sKwkYa-7yAg@mail.gmail.com>
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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 to 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 names 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.
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