How do I escape a dot character for an rsync command? [closed]

Question

I'm trying to do...

ssh -av -e deploy@domain.com:/var/www/domain.com /Users/user/workspace/domain

But it's outputting this (I presume because of the period character):

OpenSSH_5.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
Bad escape character 'deploy@domain.com:/var/www/domain.com'.

I have tried

ssh -av -e deploy@domain.com:/var/www/domain\.com /Users/user/workspace/domain

And various combinations with quotes. What is the right syntax?

Answer 1

You're doing this:

ssh -av -e deploy@domain.com:/var/www/domain.com /Users/user/workspace/domain

You're not executing rsync at all and ssh is telling you that deploy@domain.com:/var/www/domain.com is not a valid escape character.

Read ssh(1):

-e escape_char
Sets the escape character for sessions with a pty (default: `~'). The escape character is only recognized at the beginning of a line. The escape character followed by a dot (`.') closes the connection; followed by control-Z suspends the connection; and followed by itself sends the escape character once. Setting the character to ``none'' disables any escapes and makes the session fully transparent.

I think what you meant to run is this:

rsync -e ssh -av deploy@domain.com:/var/www/domain.com /Users/user/workspace/domain