hi neal
i think you also need to watch out for other ms windoze gotchas
space in filenames are easy to handle...
more common problems for tar, cp and other unix utils ...
/home/me/tom's proposal/
ticks is a major problem
/home/me/ leading spaced names/
/home/me/windoze_user/for fun:/ or was it $
/home/me/windoze_user/' things on sale for $1.oo'
- using ' to signify users choices of ms filenames
in the file name that windoze allows that is NOT valid in *nix
ie... pre-process your list of illegal file names before coming from
windoze to *nix...or you'll have some problems...
it also seem to have depended on which linux distro, which samba version
and tar, find, cp that had varying degree of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" those file
names
again
have fun
alvin
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Neal Lippman wrote:
> Sorry for OT posting; I am not sure if there is a newsgroups for bash
> experts, so I figured I'd try here.
>
> I need to be able to write a bash script that can copy files from a directory
> who's name includes a space (long story, but it's a windows directory under
> Win98 on a machine on my network).
>
> Anyway, supposing that the directory is "/mount/windows/spaced name" and I
> need to copy all of the files in the directory to a target.
>
> At a bash prompt, I can issue either:
> cp "/mount/windows/spaced name/*" target
> OR
> cp /mount/windows/spaced\ name/* target
> and all works fine.
>
> However, from within a bash script, something like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> sourcedir=/mount/windows/spaced\ name
> cp $sourcedir/* target
>
> fails, because the space isn't properly passed to cp, AND further the shell
> doesn't do expansion on the wild card in the file name.
>
> I have tried all sorts of variants:
> sourcedir="/mount/windows/spaced\ name"
> sourcedir="/mount/windows/spaced\\ name"
> sourcedir=/mount/windows/spaced\\ name"
>
> and the cp command with various quotes and not quotes, and cannot seem to get
> this to work. Within the script, if I try:
>
> sourcedir="mount/windows/spaced\ name"
> anotherdir="mount/windows"
> echo $sourcedir/*
> echo $anotherdir/*
>
> the first echo shows that there is no expansion of the wild card, while the
> second echo works as expected, echoing the name of every file in
> /mount/windows.
>
> Clearly the problem is that dreadful space in the directory name. Any help on
> how to syntax this greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> N
>
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