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Both arguments are surrounded by
"
, which should be space-safe.At least in the shells I use, putting
"
makes spaces inside paths a non-issue.For the
rsync
command, yes. But this:will process the space-separated parts of each path as separate items. I had to work around this issue just two days ago, it's an obscure thing that not everyone will keep in mind.