How to escape spaces in rsync source and destination paths

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Sat Aug 23 02:34:42 GMT 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 14:56 -0400, Carney Mimms wrote:
> I still need some help, though, as the script now runs without actually
> doing anything or producing any feedback.

It looks like I forgot to take out the colon in front of the
"${COMMAND[@]}", which I had used to turn the command into a no-op for
my own testing.  Oops.  The last part of the script should read:

-----
# DO IT!
"${COMMAND[@]}"

echo Done.

# the end.
-----

Sorry about that.

Matt

> On 8/21/08 9:32 PM, "Matt McCutchen" <matt at mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
> > # DO IT!
> > : "${COMMAND[@]}"
> > 
> > echo Done.
> > 
> > # the end.
> > -----
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