Re: whitespaces in disk names

Well, the problem I have is particular :
When I try to describe my directory name with a whitespace in it, amcheck considers that
the word following the whitespace is the dumptype.
For example, when I try (with or without simple or double quotes)
/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie SYNLOG
amcheck takes SYNLOG as the dumptype, and tells me it doesn't exist.

And when I try using the special characters, amcheck doesn't take SYNLOG as
the dumptype, but it takes the directory name WITH THE SPECIAL CHARACTERS as the
REAL directory name. Wich, I think, should not be.

Did anyone already try to cope with whitespaces in directory names in the disklist file ?

D. Keith Higgs a écrit:

I would try a couple of other things.

* Replace " " with "%20" so you have "/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie%20SYNLOG"

* Double quote the name
* Single quote the name (some shells treat the different quotes differently)

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org 
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Gilles Bourcy
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 05:17 AM
To: amanda-users
Subject: whitespaces in disk names

Hello,

My problem is the following :
I wish to save a directory in which there is a whitespace :
/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie SYNLOG

So in the disklist file I tried different possibilities, 
first by using 
Linux usual means to deal with whitespaces
in directory names :
/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie\ SYNLOG
"/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie SYNLOG"
But when doing an amcheck, it rejects with an error saying 
that SYNLOG 
is a non defined dump-type
(which is normal : it's part of the name of a directory, not 
a dumptype).

So I tried using the different means offered by Amanda. :
/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie?SYNLOG
^/usr1/home/document/Ingenierie?SYNLOG$
/usr1/home/document/Ing*SYNLOG
and so on...
But when doing an amcheck, I've got an error saying the directories
or files don't exist.

Has someone any idea ?