Problems with spaces in filenames in scripts

[Joseph Miller]

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 09:41, Joseph Miller wrote:
> I've got some (bash) shell scripts which I'm using to call rsync based
> on command-line options passed to the script. The problem I'm having is
> with spaces in the filenames/paths.

Heh.. no sooner than I post this, it gets solved by my neighbour... this
might help someone else, so here is the solution...

---
opts='-rav --modify-window=2 --stats --partial --compress --timeout=30 
"localhost::module_name/dir/file with spaces.doc"  "/smb/dir/dir with
spaces/" '

eval rsync $opts
---

putting the 'eval' in front of the call to rsync makes the shell
evaluate the variable properly.