[PATCH] Exclude directories from any root filesystem
On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Maarten ter Huurne <maarten at treewalker.org> writes:
> > It treats any whitespace in the exclusion file as a separator, which
> > means means it's impossible to exclude a file or directory that
> > contains a space in its name. I don't think any Debian package uses
> > spaces in file names, so I guess this is not a problem.
>
> To work around your problem you can use something like (untested):
>
> while read line
> do
> ...
> done < EXCLUDE
>
> It should work fine.
The "while" construct indeed leaves the spaces in tact during iteration.
However, when using the variable that contains a space, a lot of things can
go wrong. I think I've found a reasonable solution now, it is in the
attached patch. Please review it.
Bye,
Maarten
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