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Re: bash and variable holding directories with spaces
Brian Dessent wrote:
> "H.S." wrote:
>
>
>>In the script, I am faced with this problem of defining the source
>>directories (dirs on the remote machine to be backed up) in a bash
>>variable. I want to define a variable DIRS so that it expands to:
>>'/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings /cygdrive/d/My\ Data'
>>
>>*with* the quotes, to copy "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings" and
>>"/cygdrive/d/My Data" to my local machine. I want to use this variable
>>in the rsync command, like so:
>>rsync -av remotehost:$DIRS /mnt/backups
>>
>>I have tried a few ways to define the DIRS variable, but I am able to
>>get quotes in the expanded value of the variable.
>
>
> You have to quote $DIRS when you use it otherwise it will be expanded
> into multiple words.
>
> DIRS='/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings /cygdrive/d/My\ Data'
> rsync -av "remotehost:$DIRS" /mnt/backups
>
> If it were me I think I'd just use mount to get rid of the spaces.
>
> Brian
>
Yup, it works perfectly:
$> DIRS='/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/user1
/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/user2'; rsync -n -avz
--exclude=Application* --exclude=Local?Sett* "ice:$DIRS" ./
Thanks a ton.
BTW, how to use mount to deal with spaces?
->HS
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