Rsync with Cygwin creating weird directories

cygwin;rsync

I'm trying to use rsync to backup data from a local shared drive to a remove server. Both the local machine and the remote server are running Cygwin under Windows XP. I use the following command:

rsync -aze ssh –size-only –delete //SharedFolder/dir/subdir user@remoteserver:/cygdrive/c/dir

The problem is that instead of copying files to the subdir directory, a new directory is created called subdir?, where ? is a non-ascii character. I tried various combinations of / at the end of the destination or remote path, always with the same result.

How can I tell rsync not to create this weird new directory?

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The problem was that the script file used to run the command was saved in the Windows format with \r\n line separators. That weird character was the carriage return. I saved the file in the unix format with just \n and things are now fine.

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I managed to find a solution which currently works for me. I am unsure if this is a guaranteed correct approach.

In order to avoid permission issues, I need to add the following to my rsync command: --no-p --chmod=ugo=rwX. Thus, my rsync backup command should look like the following:

rsync -avhP --no-p --chmod=ugo=rwX --delete --log-file="/cygdrive/C/Users/MyUsername/rsync-backup-log.txt" "/cygdrive/C/Users/MyUsername/Folder A" "/cygdrive/E/Backup/"

Credit to this solution goes to the following answer in a similar post: https://superuser.com/a/69764/607501

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