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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Spaces in a rsync variable Post 302362916 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 18th of October 2009 05:49:13 PM
Old 10-18-2009
Hi Wolfv,

The problem lies in the fact that either you put quotes around the variables, but then rsync interprets them a single path. Or you do not put quotes around them but then the spaces can not be escaped. I can see two work-arounds:

1. Put the source paths in separate variables
Code:
sources="/home/wolf/test"
sources2="/media/sda1/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents"
destination="/media/USBdrive/backups/backup1"

rsync -rltxnv $sources "$sources2" $destination

You can put as many directories in $sources as you like but you would have to use a separate variable for each path that contains spaces.


2. Use eval.
Code:
sources="/home/wolf/test '/media/sda1/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents'"
destination="/media/USBdrive/backups/backup1"

eval rsync -rltxnv $sources $destination

 

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