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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem with echo inserting single quotes Post 302452538 by jelloir on Saturday 11th of September 2010 01:22:22 AM
Old 09-11-2010
Great! that got it, Thanks Scrutinizer.

I'll do some reading up on eval to understand how eval helped.

Code:
$ bash -x /tmp/exclude 
+ exclude='Archive PST,SystemState'
++ IFS=,
++ for excl in '${exclude}'
++ printf %s '--exclude="Archive PST" '
++ for excl in '${exclude}'
++ printf %s '--exclude="SystemState" '
+ rsyncExclusions='--exclude="Archive PST" --exclude="SystemState" '
+ echo '--exclude="Archive PST" --exclude="SystemState" '
--exclude="Archive PST" --exclude="SystemState" 
+ eval rsync -avh --delete --delete-excluded '--exclude="Archive PST" --exclude="SystemState" ' /tmp/test1/ /tmp/test2
++ rsync -avh --delete --delete-excluded '--exclude=Archive PST' --exclude=SystemState /tmp/test1/ /tmp/test2
sending incremental file list
deleting SystemState/
deleting Archive PST/

sent 26 bytes  received 12 bytes  76.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

 

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bup-drecurse(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   bup-drecurse(1)

NAME
bup-drecurse - recursively list files in your filesystem SYNOPSIS
bup drecurse [-x] [-q] [--exclude path] [--exclude-from filename] [--profile] <path> DESCRIPTION
bup drecurse traverses files in the filesystem in a way similar to find(1). In most cases, you should use find(1) instead. This program is useful mainly for testing the file traversal algorithm used in bup-index(1). Note that filenames are returned in reverse alphabetical order, as in bup-index(1). This is important because you can't generate the hash of a parent directory until you have generated the hashes of all its children. When listing files in reverse order, the parent directory will come after its children, making this easy. OPTIONS
-x, --xdev, --one-file-system don't cross filesystem boundaries. -q, --quiet don't print filenames as they are encountered. Useful when testing performance of the traversal algorithms. --exclude=path a path to exclude from the backup (can be used more than once) --exclude-from=filename a file that contains exclude paths (can be used more than once) --profile print profiling information upon completion. Useful when testing performance of the traversal algorithms. EXAMPLE
bup drecurse -x / SEE ALSO
bup-index(1) BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite. AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>. Bup unknown- bup-drecurse(1)
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