Re: stupid spaces in environment vars

[David Bear <david dot bear at asu dot edu>]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> David Bear wrote:
> 
>> Okay, the problem is in quoting in shell scripts, I think.
>> 
>> Here's an example:
>> #!/usr/bin/bash
>> curdir=`pwd`
>> echo $curdir
>> prodir=`cygpath $USERPROFILE`
> 
> Should be:
> 
> prodir=$(cygpath "$USERPROFILE")
> 
>> echo $prodir
>> cd $prodir
> 
> Should be:
> 
> cd "$prodir"
> 
>> cd /cygdrive/c/Documents\\\ and\\\ Settings/$USERNAME
> 
> Should be:
> 
> cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/$USERNAME"
> 
>> pwd
>> cd $curdir
> 
> Should be:
> 
> cd "$curdir"
> 
> See the pattern?  In general whenever you have a variable that might
> contain spaces you just need to quote it.  Forget the triple-backslash
> nonsense.  Double quotes are all you need.
> 
> Brian

thanks you very much. However, there is still something that doesn't work.
Here's a simple script that has problems.

#!/bin/sh
# the user has write access to
src=`cygpath $USERPROFILE`
echo $src
r='snapshot1.pp.asu.edu'
opts=" -av --dry-run -e ssh"
rsync $opts "$src/" $USER@$r:~/$HOSTNAME 



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David Bear
College of Public Programs at Arizona State University


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