[wellylug] Shell script problem

[Atom Smasher]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, John Fouhy wrote:

> If I drop the single quotes and escape all the spaces (replace ' ' with 
> '\ ' in the EXCLUDES lines), then it works.
>
> So I guess that is solved.  I'm glad there was a logical explanation for 
> what seemed to me very illogical behaviour.  Thanks for your help, Atom 
> and Michael.
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if you want to keep it more readable without the backslashes, try this:

EXCLUDES='--exclude="saswork/" --exclude="pagefile.sys" --exclude="*.tmp"'
EXCLUDES=$EXCLUDES ## gobble up single quotes as needed above

for more info on what's happening, read the docs for the shell you're 
using and look for "field splitting".


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