Re: [BackupPC-users] variable substitution

[Ambrose L. <amb...@gm...>]

On 15/02/07, Craig Barratt <cba...@us...> wrote:
>
> BackupPC doesn't use a shell for executing these commands,
> so shell substitutions like `...` don't work.
>
> You can set $Conf{TarClientCmd} to execute a shell script that
> can do any argument processing you want.

Actually `` are valid Perl quotes that execute a shell, so this would
have worked if the `` had not been further quoted.

Whether running things like these in a config file is safe is another
matter, though. I think this is in general a bad idea, but if the
command inside the backticks is guaranteed to produce safe output
this should be ok.

-- 
cheers,
-ambrose