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Space in Dir Name with shell script and tar
- From: Troy <talexander at veeco dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:50:26 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Space in Dir Name with shell script and tar
I am trying to make a shell script to do automatic bckups with tar.
My problem is that tar stumbles on the spaces in the dir names if they are
in a variable.
Probiably best shown by example
The dir I want to back up is
g:/Mark I+/Experimental Data/
I if do this in the script
tar -czvpf $NAME_OF_BACKUP.tgz /cygdrive/g/Mark' 'I+/Experimental' 'Data/*
it works fine but if I do this
DIRECTORY_TO_BACKUP="/cygdrive/g/Mark' 'I+/Experimental' 'Data"
tar -czvpf $NAME_OF_BACKUP.tgz $DIRECTORY_TO_BACKUP/*
I get
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: /cygdrive/g/Mark': Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: 'I+/Experimental': Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: 'Data/*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
What am I doing wrong?
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