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[_] rsync - apostrophe in filename help!

Adam Beaumont adambeaumont at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 16:19:04 BST 2007

> > rsync -auvz --rsh=ssh user at 192.168.1.3:/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\
> > Settings/Noah\'s\ Ark/My\ Documents/* /home/backup/tiger/My\
> > Documents/
>
> Are you sure you want that "*" in there? rsync will act recursively with the
> -a flag anyway.
>
> I think that might be the problem, not the apostrophe.
>
> Oliver.

Hmm just tried that but it returns: unexpected EOF while looking for
matching `''
?
Adam