Its too late for this but...
declare Ads as
Ads="/home/roger/smb4k/AQUARIUS/AquariusSystem/Documents and Settings"
or
Ads=/home/roger/smb4k/AQUARIUS/AquariusSystem/Documents\ and\ Settings
as far as joining to other text, play on the command line, but I suspect
you will want:
"$Ads/username/Desktop"
Or
${Ads}/username/Destop
unless username has spaces, in which case more quoting or escaping will be
needed.
The ${} makes sure that special characters in $Ads are treated properly.
By the way, most bash script I see written has variables in UPPERCASE. Its not
by any means needed, just a readability thing.
Roger Searle wrote:
Can't think of a particularly good subject line here, sorry, hope my
questions are clear...
Continuing on with my backup scripts, and wanting to back up some files
on a windows machine that family members use. Quite a few of the
directories I want to back up are in the user profiles contained within
the "documents and settings" folder. The mounted path to this windows
location from my linux box is
"/home/roger/smb4k/AQUARIUS/AquariusSystem/Documents and Settings".
Given the spaces in that path, I thought I might declare this path in
the script:
Ads="c
and then I could tell tar to back up a folder based on this, but I don't
know how to add to this base path nor do I think I am declaring Ads
correctly given the spaces, and that the \ character is within quotes.
So the first question is: how do I correctly declare Ads so that I can
use it as the basis for a path to tell tar to back up?
The second question is, how do I correctly join Ads to
"/username/Desktop" for example?
$Ads/username/Desktop ?
$(Ads)/username/Desktop ?
Something else?
Probably obviously, I am not a programmer, all I need though is to get
this general method sorted and I will be away...
A simple form of the script I have so far is below, in case it helps
clarify what I am doing. And to note... the last commented line in it
will (uncommented) successfully back up the /ashley/Desktop folder.
$Aqds/ashley/Desktop will not, it will return the error:
backup-aquarius.sh: line 9:
/home/roger/smb4k/AQUARIUS/AquariusSystem/Documents\: Invalid argument
(this is a reference to line 5 where I am trying to create Aqds
#!/bin/bash
TarFile=/home/roger/backup-aquarius-`date +%a-%d-%m-%y`.tgz
Tar="/bin/tar -czvf"
Aqds="/home/roger/smb4k/AQUARIUS/AquariusSystem/Documents\ and\ Settings"
$Tar $TarFile \
#/home/roger/smb4k/AQUARIUS/AquariusSystem/Documents\ and\
Settings/ashley/Desktop
$Aqds/ashley/Desktop
Cheers,
Roger
