RE: scripting problem

Untill somebody uses a '=' sign in the name of a directory...

The IFS solution is probably a lot safer.

One other solution would be to make tar create several files with a
maximum size of 2G. If you want I'll post the scripts I use for this
but it's little more than an extended version of the example code in the
tar manual.

A basic example is explained at
http://www.cgi-interactive-uk.com/splitting_large_files.html, but more
examples can be found by googling "tar multi volume". The example
described on this page is interactive but you can also use a script for
this as explained on e.g.
http://cclib.nsu.ru/projects/gnudocs/gnudocs/tar/tar_137.html.

Regards

Bram




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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steven Buehler
Sent: maandag 28 januari 2008 22:22
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: RE: scripting problem

Perfect. Thank You SO MUCH. That did the trick.
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Broekman, Maarten
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 3:09 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RE: scripting problem

You could push the ls output through sed to remove the
spaces for the
for-loop and then again when you are inside the loop.

DIRSTOBACKUP=`/bin/ls -d1 /home/user/* | /bin/sed -e 's/ /=/g'`
for NAMEDIR in ${DIRSTOBACKUP[@]}
do
DIR=`echo $NAMEDIR | /bin/sed -e 's/=/ /g'`
echo $DIR
done

It's a bit round-about but it'll get around the spaces.


Maarten Broekman

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bliss
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:01 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: scripting problem

Steve,
The easiest way to work around the space problem is to just
use tar to
backup the home directory.

Aaron

Steven Buehler wrote:
I am hoping that someone here can help me with this. I
am running a
little
script that backs up some directories for me. Below is
snippet that
gets me
into trouble.
---------------------
#!/bin/sh
DIRSTOBACKUP=`/bin/ls -d1 /home/user/*`
for NAMEDIR in ${DIRSTOBACKUP[@]}
do
echo $NAMEDIR
done
---------------------

The problem is that some of the directories have spaces
in the names.
When
running the for loop, it will take the new NAMEDIR at the
space. So
"Red
Hat" would end up listing as 2 directories, "Red" and
"Hat". Any way
around
this?

Thanks
Steve



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