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From: | David Bear <david DOT bear AT asu DOT edu> |
Subject: | Re: stupid spaces in environment vars |
Date: | Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:56:10 -0700 |
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Brian Dessent wrote: > David Bear wrote: > >> Okay, the problem is in quoting in shell scripts, I think. >> >> Here's an example: >> #!/usr/bin/bash >> curdir=`pwd` >> echo $curdir >> prodir=`cygpath $USERPROFILE` > > Should be: > > prodir=$(cygpath "$USERPROFILE") > >> echo $prodir >> cd $prodir > > Should be: > > cd "$prodir" > >> cd /cygdrive/c/Documents\\\ and\\\ Settings/$USERNAME > > Should be: > > cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/$USERNAME" > >> pwd >> cd $curdir > > Should be: > > cd "$curdir" > > See the pattern? In general whenever you have a variable that might > contain spaces you just need to quote it. Forget the triple-backslash > nonsense. Double quotes are all you need. > > Brian thanks you very much. However, there is still something that doesn't work. Here's a simple script that has problems. #!/bin/sh # the user has write access to src=`cygpath $USERPROFILE` echo $src r='snapshot1.pp.asu.edu' opts=" -av --dry-run -e ssh" rsync $opts "$src/" $USER@$r:~/$HOSTNAME -- -- David Bear College of Public Programs at Arizona State University -- 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/
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