Uri Guttman wrote:
"ET" == Ezra Taylor<ezra.tay...@gmail.com> writes:
ET> Hello All:
ET> My rsync options are not being recognized in the system
ET> function. I tried escaping the asterisks and single quotes to no avail.
ET> Also, I do not want to install any rsync modules. Your help will be
much
ET> appreciated. Thanks.
ET> my $RSYNC_OPTS=' -auvr --include='*/' --exclude='*' ';
that isn't valid perl. is that the actual line you used? you can't put
single quotes inside a string delimited with single quotes. the best way
is to use the q operator and choose a different delimiter. also use
white space around the =.
my $RSYNC_OPTS = q{ -auvr --include='*/' --exclude='*' } ;
ET> system("$RSYNC", "$RSYNC_OPTS",
"$host:/Blah/blah/Blue/$host_env/$cluster","/tmp/$host");
there is not need to quote scalar vars like that. in fact it could lead
to a bug in some situations.
The real problem is that $RSYNC_OPTS contains whitespace and you can't
mix system(LIST) and system(STRING) together like that. It has to be
either:
system($RSYNC, split( ' ', $RSYNC_OPTS ),
"$host:/Blah/blah/Blue/$host_env/$cluster", "/tmp/$host");
Or:
system("$RSYNC $RSYNC_OPTS $host:/Blah/blah/Blue/$host_env/$cluster
/tmp/$host");
John
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