Re: [Ftplicity-general] What do the $'s in conf file mean?

[Larry E. <cpp...@su...>]

On 09/14/2016 08:43 AM, Larry Evans wrote:
> I created a test profile:
>
>    duply test create
>
> and then looked in"
>
>    ~/.duply/test/conf
>
> and notice several occurrences of $.  For instance:
>
> #FILENAME='.duplicity-ignore'
> #DUPL_PARAMS="$DUPL_PARAMS --exclude-if-present '$FILENAME'"
>
> I'm guessing that if those lines are uncommented, then
> $FILENAME's value would be '.duplicty-ignore'.
> I'm guessing that $<varname> retrieves the value of
> a variable.  Is that right.  If <varname> has not been
> assigned a value, then $<varname> is the empty string?
>
It's a bash file; hence, $<varname> does retrieve the value.
That it's a bash file is based on looking in:

/usr/bin/duply

which is a base file which imports the conf file around
line 1535 with:

[ -r "$CONF" ] && . "$CONF" || warning "Cannot import config '$CONF'."

-Larry