Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , 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 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/