I would try a couple of other things. * Replace " " with "%20" so you have "/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie%20SYNLOG"
* Double quote the name * Single quote the name (some shells treat the different quotes differently) D. Keith Higgs <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> x0559 Case Western Reserve University, Webmaster - University Library Additional Information at http://www.cwru.edu/UL/ and http://keith.cwru.edu/ "Follow the white rabbit." > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gilles Bourcy > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 05:17 AM > To: amanda-users > Subject: whitespaces in disk names > > > Hello, > > My problem is the following : > I wish to save a directory in which there is a whitespace : > /usr1/home/document/Ingenierie SYNLOG > > So in the disklist file I tried different possibilities, > first by using > Linux usual means to deal with whitespaces > in directory names : > /usr1/home/document/Ingenierie\ SYNLOG > "/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie SYNLOG" > But when doing an amcheck, it rejects with an error saying > that SYNLOG > is a non defined dump-type > (which is normal : it's part of the name of a directory, not > a dumptype). > > So I tried using the different means offered by Amanda. : > /usr1/home/document/Ingenierie?SYNLOG > ^/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie?SYNLOG$ > /usr1/home/document/Ing*SYNLOG > and so on... > But when doing an amcheck, I've got an error saying the directories > or files don't exist. > > Has someone any idea ? > >
