On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 14:10:16 -0700 , John W. Krahn wrote:
>
> The real problem is that $RSYNC_OPTS contains whitespace and you
> can't mix system(LIST) and system(STRING) together like that. It has
> to be either:
>
> system($RSYNC, split( ' ', $RSYNC_OPTS ),
> "$host:/Blah/blah/Blue/$host_env/$cluster", "/tmp/$host");
>
> Or:
>
> system("$RSYNC $RSYNC_OPTS $host:/Blah/blah/Blue/$host_env/$cluster
> /tmp/$host");
Note that the LIST form of system won't have problems with shell
variables, so is generally a better idea unless the shell variable
interpolation behavior is desired.
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