On 4 February 2010 21:48, Baruch Siach <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Actually, it _does_ archive files with spaces in their file names. It won't exclude files with spaces in their filenames. Which is exactly what I am trying to do! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
