Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID:	<40BF9224.7090303@comcast.net>
Date:	Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:03:32 -0500
From:	Will Senn <will_senn AT comcast DOT net>
User-Agent:	Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502)
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Problem with spaces embedded in filenames
X-Enigmail-Version:	0.84.0.0
X-Enigmail-Supports:	pgp-inline, pgp-mime
X-IsSubscribed:	yes

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
 
Hi,

I am doing backups with tar on XP. I thought that I could touch a file
when I did a full backup and then use find with newer to only back up
files that are newer than the touched file:

~    touch /cygdrive/i/backups/full_backup
~    find /cygdrive/d/sandbox -newer /cygdrive/i/backups/full_backup !
~    -type d -print | sed -e "s/\ /\\\\ /g"`


this command produces the following list of files:

~    /cygdrive/d/sandbox/another\ test.txt
~    /cygdrive/d/sandbox/test.txt


'another test.txt' is a file with an embedded space (I figured I
needed to escape the space, hence the sed)

The problem is this, when I use the output of this command as the
input of another it complains. ie.

~    $ ls -l `find /cygdrive/d/sandbox -newer
~    /cygdrive/i/backups/_sandbox.full ! -type d -print | sed -e "s/\
~    /\\\\ /g"`

~    ls: /cygdrive/d/sandbox/another: No such file or directory
~    -rwx------+   1 wsenn    None            0 Jun  3 14:45
~    /cygdrive/d/sandbox/test.txt
~    -rw-r--r--    1 wsenn    None           69 Jun  3 15:26 test.txt

Any help would be appreciated. Here's the tar command I planned on using:

~    tar czf /cygdrive/i/${TODAY}_I_sandbox.tgz `find
~    /cygdrive/d/sandbox -newer /cygdrive/i/backups/full_backup ! -type
~    d -print | sed -e s/\ /\\\\\ /g`

Later,

Will
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
 
iD8DBQFAv5IjBvT4ZqqGK0sRAqHTAJ9Jq0U+GX0EtEU8lM8vUkv4xwbMUQCdFvtU
n2DkKcAkUkMrtDPOJzuwgOQ=
=4iEV
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----



--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -