I've got an NTFS file system mounted on my Linux box, which means I can have multi-word directory names. I want to recurse through the directory structure copying stuff from /A to /B when it does not already exist on /B. Here is the chunk of code, and the output of a set -x run on that chunk of code. Anybody see what I am doing wrong?
Code:
HOLDPATH=`/bin/pwd`
echo "HOLDPATH=$HOLDPATH"
cd /A
echo `/bin/pwd`
# If it is a directory, we want to tar up the whole thing, not just 1 file
# but if we got to here, it should be a file
echo "About to copy $PATH5 to /B"
#### /bin/tar clf - "$PATH5" |(cd /B; /bin/tar xvpf -)
echo " "
echo "HOLDPATH=$HOLDPATH"
# HERE is where we need to mess with the path
HOLDPATH1=`echo "$HOLDPATH" | /bin/sed -e 's/\//\"\/\"/g' | /bin/sed 's/$/\"/' | /bin/sed 's/\"//'`
echo "HOLDPATH1=$HOLDPATH1"
cd $HOLDPATH
cd $HOLDPATH1
Code:
++ /bin/pwd
+ HOLDPATH='/A/Backup of GB stick/Removable Disk (I)'
+ echo 'HOLDPATH=/A/Backup of GB stick/Removable Disk (I)'
+ cd /A
++ /bin/pwd
+ echo /A
+ echo 'About to copy Backup of GB stick/Removable Disk (I)/03-RSE-DS_DNS.iso to /B'
+ echo ' '
+ echo 'HOLDPATH=/A/Backup of GB stick/Removable Disk (I)'
++ /bin/sed 's/\"//'
++ /bin/sed 's/$/\"/'
++ /bin/sed -e 's/\//\"\/\"/g'
++ echo '/A/Backup of GB stick/Removable Disk (I)'
+ HOLDPATH1='/"A"/"Backup of GB stick"/"Removable Disk (I)"'
+ echo 'HOLDPATH1=/"A"/"Backup of GB stick"/"Removable Disk (I)"'
+ cd /A/Backup of GB stick/Removable Disk '(I)'
/scriptr: line 127: cd: /A/Backup: No such file or directory
+ cd '/"A"/"Backup' of GB 'stick"/"Removable' Disk '(I)"'
/scriptr: line 128: cd: /"A"/"Backup: No such file or directory
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