and just in case anyone is actually going to implement something
similar, I have happily found that wildcards will work so rather than
back up ashley's and belinda's etc Desktops individually, I can do all
the users on the machine via
"${AQDS}"/*/Desktop \
cool! bye bye ntbackup, i don't believe I need you ever again...
Roger Searle wrote:
> I had round brackets rather than curly (the writing is on the wall - I
> now need glasses) though that was not the only thing to fix. Eventually
> i discovered through more googling that it is necessary to enclose my
> declared value in quotes like this:
>
> AQDS="/home/roger/smb4k/AQUARIUS/AquariusSystem/Documents and Settings"
> <--- no escaping required here
>
> $Tar $TarFile \
> "${AQDS}"/ashley/Desktop \
> "${AQDS}"/ashley/Favorites \
> etc
>
> These altered lines result in success. Thanks for the late night reply!
>
>
> Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> Its too late for this but...
>>
>> declare Ads as
>>
>> Ads="/home/roger/smb4k/AQUARIUS/AquariusSystem/Documents and Settings"
>>
>> or
>>
>> Ads=/home/roger/smb4k/AQUARIUS/AquariusSystem/Documents\ and\ Settings
>>
>> as far as joining to other text, play on the command line, but I
>> suspect you will want:
>>
>> "$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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
