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Roger Creasy
Asked: 2016-09-10 11:24:07 +0800 CST

Why can I not copy directories to a WEBDAV mount?

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I am trying to copy files from my primary data storage server into an OwnCloud instance. The data storage server has successfully mounted the user's directory on the OwnCLoud server, via webdav. I can copy files from the data server to the OwnCloud server; I can mkdir on OwnCLoud from the data server. However, I cannot recursively copy a directory from the data server. I get, for each directory I am trying to copy: cannot create directory '/path/to/dir\ with\ spaces\ in\ name': Invalid argument

Here is the command I am using: cp -R /dir/* /mnt/point/

Both servers are Linux. However, there are windows file and directory names (with spaces) in the directory I am trying to copy. I think that the issue is with the directory name having spaces in it.

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1 Answers

  1. I found the solution. The problem does seem to have been in the naming of directories. Instead of using the slash delimiter for the space, I had to wrap the directory names in quotes. (I didn't know Linux saw any difference in the 2 methods)

    In the commands where I was using directory names, this did not work:
    /path/to/dir\ with\ spaces\ in\ name

    This did: "/path/to/dir with spaces in name"

    If anyone knows why, I would love to know.

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