On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 01:21:30AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] 20091010042217.GD2004@samad.com.au>, Alex Samad wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >i have this
> >
> >RDSCHM="--remote-schema 'ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_backup -C %s
> >rdiff-backup --server'"
> >
> >
> >and trying this
> >
> >rdiff-backup \
> > $RDSCHM \
> > $RDRM \
> > "$DEST/"
>
> Sorry, there's no clean, portable way to have both multiple command-line
> arguments in a single variable and have an IFS character in one of those
> arguments.
Oh well, time to play with IFS or eval
>
> When you do this rdiff-backup gets these arguments:
> argv = {
> [0] = "rdiff-backup"
> [1] = "--remote-schema"
> [2] = "'ssh"
> [3] = "-i"
> [4] = "/root/.ssh/id_backup"
> [5] = "-C"
> ... /* etc. */
> }
>
> If you force your script to be executed with bash (NOT dash or just sh) you
> can use shell arrays to do what you want:
>
> RDSCHM=(
> '--remote-schema'
> 'ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_backup -C %s rdiff-backup --server'
> )
>
> rdiff-backup \
> "$RDSCHM[@]" \
> $RDRM \
> "$DEST/"
>
>
> You can also force your to work correctly under dash / sh, but you'll have to
> understand how to use eval, which can get a bit tricky. It would look
> something like this:
I wanted to try and stick to non bashisms
>
> RDSCHM="--remote-schema \
> 'ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_backup -C %s rdiff-backup --server'"
>
> eval "rdiff-backup $RDSCHM $RDRM "'"$DEST/"'
thanks
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