Hi Dotan,
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:12:54PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I hope there is a bash guru out there today. I need to script a backup
> plan which has a list of directories that should not be backed up.
> Some of these directories have spaces in their filenames. The
> following script works so long as there are no directories with spaces
> in DONT_COPY, however, I cannot figure out what to do to get it to
> work _with_ spaces in filenames:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> DONT_COPY="
> .adobe/
> File with Spaces
> .bin/google-earth
> Yet Another Annoying Filename
> "
>
> DONT_COPY_LIST=""
> for pattern in $DONT_COPY ; do DONT_COPY_LIST="$DONT_COPY_LIST
> --exclude=$pattern "; done
> tar -zcvf - * $DONT_COPY_LIST
>
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!
How about:
rm -f /tmp/excludes
for pattern in $DONT_COPY ; do echo ${DONT_COPY} >> /tmp/excludes; done
tar -X /tmp/excludes -zcvf - *
Note that this won't archive files with spaces in their file names.
baruch
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