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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Backup script: Copying and removing directories based on list Post 302392442 by dotancohen on Thursday 4th of February 2010 04:30:12 PM
Old 02-04-2010
Thanks! I had to change that to write to a variable, as it is in a script:
Code:
DONT_COPY_LIST=""
for pattern in $DONT_COPY ; do DONT_COPY_LIST="$DONT_COPY_LIST --exclude=$pattern "; done

However, it fails on spaces. The linux-wife balance is greatly upset by demanding no spaces in filenames, so the DONT_COPY list looks more like this (sorry that I did not think of this earlier):
Code:
DONT_COPY="
.adobe/
File with Spaces
.bin/google-earth
Yet Another Annoying Filename
"

I tried replacing DONT_COPY in the second line with quotes, but this did not help (it created a different problem). How can I work with spaces in filenames?

I appreciate your patience and advice. I have googled this, but I can find no examples in which one is working with a list like this.

---------- Post updated at 11:30 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:10 PM ----------

I got it with some help on a LUG mailing list:

Code:
EXCLUDES=`tempfile`
cat >$EXCLUDES <<EOLIST
$DONT_COPY
EOLIST

tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES  | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 | dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz

rm -f $EXCLUDES

 

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