[wellylug] Shell script problem

[John Fouhy]

Hi all,

My environment is cygwin, rather than linux, but I hope that is not
too off-topic for the list.

I have a script that looks like this:

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#!/bin/sh

SOURCE=/cygdrive/d
DEST=10.1.1.77::backup/Shaft/
EXCLUDES='--exclude="saswork/" --exclude="pagefile.sys" --exclude="*.tmp"'

rsync -vva $EXCLUDES $SOURCE $DEST
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Problem: rsync ignores the excludes -- that is, it behaves as if the
command line is 'rsync -vva $SOURCE $DEST'.

If I change the last line to look like this:

echo rsync -vva $EXCLUDES $SOURCE $DEST

and then copy/paste the resulting command line into a bash terminal,
then it works as I want.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

-- 
John.