On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:54:54PM +0100, Tim van der Molen wrote: > Tim van der Molen (2015-01-15 17:15 +0100): > > Michael W. Lucas (2015-01-15 16:04 +0100): > > > I want to substitute a > > > multi-part path, which means I have to escape /. > > > > > > # tarsnap -xf etctest -s /^etc/var\/dr\/etc/p > > > tarsnap: Invalid replacement flag d > > > > > > How can I escape characters in -s? Or am I missing something? > > > > The shell also interprets escaped characters. Have you tried \\/?
Yep. Tried lots of things before mailing the list. > That doesn't work either, I see. But what does work is using another > separation character; e.g. ",foo,bar/baz,p". <facepalm> But not that one. Thank you! ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - [email protected], Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/
