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[livau at gmx.net]

Wayne,

Thanks for your advice. It works OK now.


On 23 Jul 2005, at 17:37, Wayne Davison wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:40:08PM +0100, livau at gmx.net wrote:
>
>>  rsync $attr $bDir $rSvr:$rDir$tDay $sufx
>>
>
> This is a shell-programming error -- this tells rsync to copy 3 local
> files to a dir name that is the last word in $sufx, which happens  
> to be
> a file named friday.log.  Thus, rsync complains that two local  
> files in
> the current directory don't exist, one with a weird name (based on  
> your
> $rSvr:$rDir$tDay expansion) and one with the name ">>" (which was
> word-split out of $sufx).
>
> You need to remove all shell-special characters from inside variables
> because the shell does not evaluate them inside a variable expansion
> (not without using "eval" to tell the shell to re-parse the resulting
> string).  Explicitly, you'd need to dump the ">>" from $sufx and  
> remove
> the double-quotes from inside $attr.  Then, change your rsync- 
> executing
> line to this:
>
>   rsync $attr $bDir $rSvr:$rDir$tDay >> $sufx
>
> ..wayne..
>
>