On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:04:36AM +0100, Kasper Edwards wrote:
> At 09:42 04-01-2002 -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:13:56AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > > amrecover doesn't seem to have a way to deal with
> > > whitespace in directory/file names.  I've tried
> > > wildcards (*, ., ?), quoting (single and double)
> > > and ignoring the spaces actually there.
> >
> >You can 'add' or 'addx' files with space using wildcards or regex.
> >If you want to cd to a directory with space you need the latest
> >2.4.3b1 from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/amanda
> 
> Im using amanda 2.4.3b2. It sems that there are still problems cd'ing to 
> directories containing whitespace:
> 
> AMRECOVER Version 2.4.3b2. Contacting server on XXXX ..
> amrecover> setdisk /home/drivers
> 200 Disk set to /home/drivers.
> amrecover> ls
> 2002-01-11 HP4000/
> 2002-01-11 HP890 Color/
> 2002-01-11 wacom/
> 2002-01-11 webcam3/
> amrecover> cd HP890 Color/
> Invalid directory - HP890
> Invalid command - parse error
> amrecover>
> 
> This is consistent with all directories containing whitespace. The disk 
> above is a ext3 directory on a RH7.1 box. Fun thing is that 
> filenamecompletion (tab) works perfectly, the part after whitespace. I can 
> add using wildcards so it more annoying than an actual problem.

You must use wildcards, whitespace are not allowed. A patch to allow
[HP890\ Color] will be appreciated.
Have you tried: cd "HP890 Color"

Jean-Louis
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