Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:08:53PM -0600, Max Kipness wrote: >> Based on what was just said above, I am using Bash version 2.05b.0(1), >> and no extra configs for splitting are necessary as it splits >> appropriately at the end of the line. > > No, bash splits on all whitespace by default. Take a file like this: > > one two three > four five six > seven eight nine > > put it in a var: > > foo=`cat file` > > and then expand it: > > echo $foo > > This echo command gets 9 separate args. If you use this: > > echo "$foo" > > This echo command gets just 1 arg (with spaces and newlines included). > > However, if you set IFS to contain just a newline, then the unquoted
Wayne, I dug a bit on Google and found this page: http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/pipermail/linux-users/2003-October/022433.html Getting inspiration from this page I added this line to my .bashrc: IFS=$'\n' Restarted bash by typing "bash" and ran my script again. I still have the same error message: building file list ... link_stat /diskbox/Anciens : No such file or directory link_stat projets/. : No such file or directory done IO error encountered - skipping file deletion ./ Thanks in advance for your help. Charles > $foo reference returns 3 args. So, that's one possible bash solution. > > ..wayne.. -- Charles-E. Nadeau Ph.D http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/ -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
