David Bear wrote:
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/" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$HOSTNAME
Please, why don't you RTFABSG: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
Tristen
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