I hope there is a bash guru out there today. I need to script a backup plan which has a list of directories that should not be backed up. Some of these directories have spaces in their filenames. The following script works so long as there are no directories with spaces in DONT_COPY, however, I cannot figure out what to do to get it to work _with_ spaces in filenames:
#!/bin/bash DONT_COPY=" .adobe/ File with Spaces .bin/google-earth Yet Another Annoying Filename " DONT_COPY_LIST="" for pattern in $DONT_COPY ; do DONT_COPY_LIST="$DONT_COPY_LIST --exclude=$pattern "; done tar -zcvf - * $DONT_COPY_LIST Any ideas? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
