On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 12:43:23PM -0600, Brian Liedtke wrote: >Using tar-1.15.1-4. > >I am writing a script to create multi-volume archives using tar. However it >appears that the --info-script switch doesn't handle imbedded spaces in the >path name. >In the sample script below, I have hard-encoded the path to verify that was >the problem >and not with building the variable with the path name. > >Script: >#!/bin/bash >export ARCHIVE_DIR=/cygdrive/d >export ARCHIVE_NAME=full_`date +%y%m%d` > >tar -cv \ > --ignore-failed-read \ > --exclude=pagefile.sys \ > --exclude=*.vsv \ > -L4096 \ > -M --info-script="/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Liedtke/My >Documents/Tasks/Backup/rename.sh" \ > -f$ARCHIVE_DIR/$ARCHIVE_NAME.tar . > ># End script > >Output is: >tar: and: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory. >tar: Settings/Liedtke/My: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory. >tar: Documents/Tasks/Backup/rename.sh: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file >or directory > >I've devised a workaround by copying the script to the PWD previous to the >tar command and then >deleting it. But it should work as above, correct? > >I've searched for the problem on the web and found nothing. Am I missing >something >obvious, or is this switch not handling embedded spaces in the path name >correctly? >(Thank you Microsoft.)
"Microsoft" handles spaces in paths just fine. I don't know why tar isn't in this case but you can work around the problem by mounting the directory as something else: mount -f -x -b c:/"Documents and Settings"/Liedtke/"My Documents" /foo And then refer to "/foo/Tasks/Backup/rename.sh". I haven't tested the above and may have a typo but hopefully it is obvious nonetheless. If not, then possibly "man mount" would help. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
