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From: Troy <talexander AT veeco DOT com>
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Subject: Space in Dir Name with shell script and tar
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I am trying to make a shell script to do automatic bckups with tar.

My problem is that tar stumbles on the spaces in the dir names if they are
in a variable.

Probiably best shown by example

The dir I want to back up is 
g:/Mark I+/Experimental Data/

I if do this in the script
tar -czvpf $NAME_OF_BACKUP.tgz /cygdrive/g/Mark' 'I+/Experimental' 'Data/*
it works fine but if I do this

DIRECTORY_TO_BACKUP="/cygdrive/g/Mark' 'I+/Experimental' 'Data"
tar -czvpf $NAME_OF_BACKUP.tgz $DIRECTORY_TO_BACKUP/*

I get 
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: /cygdrive/g/Mark': Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: 'I+/Experimental': Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: 'Data/*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

What am I doing wrong?
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