RSYNC returned with error code #2

[peter_b]

[PROBLEM]
Tried to copy and rename a bunch of files using rsync (as usual ). One file threw an uncomfortable error:

ERROR: RSYNC returned with error code #2

According to rsync's man-page, this means:

EXIT VALUES
2 Protocol incompatibility

Hm...

[SOLUTION]
The file had a classic "Someone used MS Word" quote-characters in it:

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„ “

I've replaced the illegal characters with a normal double-quote (") - and everything was fine.