Re: [tlug] Strange shell quoting issue

[Alain Hoang <hoanga@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
> Shell gurus, why does this not work?
>
>
> : jglover@example.com; cat `which sync-script`
>
> RSYNC="rsync -e ssh -av --exclude .\*"
>
> echo ${RSYNC} ./ somehost.example.com:/some/dir/
> ${RSYNC} ./ somehost.example.com:/some/dir/

Try this instead:

====== SCRIPT BEGIN =======
#!/bin/sh
RSYNC="rsync -e ssh -av --exclude=\.*"

echo ${RSYNC} ./ example.com:test_dir/
${RSYNC} ./ example.com:test_dir/

====== SCRIPT END =======