[wellylug] simple (bash) scripting question

[Mark Signal]

Hi

I rsync data for a few customers and have a number of backup scripts for
each client. I want to have one common "settings" file for rsync that the
backup scripts would read in as a variable. something like...

common text file - containing one line of parameters like
"-vabcz --exclude=blahblah --suffix=blahblah"

and the backup scripts set read the file something like..

VARIABLE=`/path/cat common text file'

rsync $VARIABLE source destination etc etc

any ideas on how I could do this?

thanks

Mark
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