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Tom Woods wrote: | I'm writing a backup script, learning as I go... The problem I am having | is backing up a Windows system via samba (although I don't think it being | a Windows system has anything to do with this problem.) When I pass a | path and filename with spaces via $1 or $n to the function, tar sees the | space as a delimiter, not as a part of the path. I have tried using ', ", | and \<space>, nothing seems to work. I'm sure someone out there knows how | to accomplish what I need.
I'd suggest surrounding the $1 or $n with double quotes. Single quotes will cause them not to be expanded, but with double quotes they should be expanded and treated as one string.
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