Soare Catalin <lolinux.so...@gmail.com> writes:
>Thank you everyone for replying, but unfortunately, nothing seems to work
>for the moment, although all the answers appear to make sense.
>First, the array solution appears to work, but when tar gets all the
>parameters, they become a long string without spaces :), obviously "cannot
>stat: No such file or directory".
Please post the code you have ended up with. The array method I posted
will work, but you may be using it incorrectly. From the bash man page:
If the word is double-quoted, ${name[*]} expands to a single word
with the value of each array member separated by the first character
of the IFS special variable, and ${name[@]} expands each element of
name to a separate word.
That is, the literal "${name[@]}" expands to each element of the array
"name" as a separate word. Not one long word as you have experienced.
I've used this method plenty of times in the past, so I know it does work.
What version of bash are you using? (bash --version)
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