Hi Mike, On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 05:09:42PM -0500, Mike McClain wrote: > A section of the backup script is so: > Params=(-a --inplace --delete); > Flash=/sda/rpi4b > cd /home/mike > [ ! -d $Flash/mike ] && mkdir $Flash/mike; > > # exclude compressed files and the contents of most of the .* directories > /mc/bin/mk_rsync_exclude.sh > echo /usr/bin/rsync $Params --exclude-from=/home/mike/.rsync_exclude . > $Flash/mike
shellcheck has this to say: $ shellcheck ./foo.sh In ./foo.sh line 6: echo /usr/bin/rsync $Params --exclude-from=/home/mike/.rsync_exclude . $Flash/mike ^-- SC2128: Expanding an array without an index only gives the first element. It's worth using shellcheck. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting