[BackupPC-users] Re: Command Line Expansion problem

[Daniel P. <da...@ri...>]

On 27 Sep 2004, Torsten Sadowski wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to use a little script along the lines of "How can client 
> access as root be avoided?":
>
> #!/bin/sh -f
> exec /bin/tar -c $*
>
> The problem is that the command line is already expanded for the 
> script which leads to problems for incremental backups as 
> "--newer=2004-09-24\ 00:00:00" turns into "--newer=2004-09-24 
> 00:00:00" which makes tar looking for the non existing file 00:00:00. 
> Is there any possibility to fix this?

Using bash, that should read:

    exec /bin/tar -c "$@"

You may be able to find a suitable way of expanding those parameters
that keeps them "quoted" for you shell, or moving to bash.

     Daniel
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