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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Rsync - hot to omit MOTD/banners Post 302956290 by Corona688 on Monday 28th of September 2015 04:19:49 PM
Old 09-28-2015
You can't put quotes in quotes. Quotes don't work that way.

You shouldn't be storing entire commandlines in a variable. Variables don't work that way either, as you've discovered.

Why not use the command line for the command, and reserve variables, for things that vary?
 

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