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 \\/?
That doesn't work either, I see. But what does work is using another separation character; e.g. ",foo,bar/baz,p".
