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Re: Problem with includes, with workaround - is this a bug?

2004-09-09 19:52:37
Subject: Re: Problem with includes, with workaround - is this a bug?
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert AT linux-m68k DOT org>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 19:46:08 -0400
On Thursday 09 September 2004 15:17, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 09 September 2004 14:31, Andreas Lund wrote:
>> >archimedes.atc.no       home-a          /mnt/san0/home  {
>> >        high-pri-tar
>> >        include "./[a]*"
>> >}       3
>> >
>> >This works for my particular situation but it looks to me like a
>> > serious problem with how includes are parsed.
>>
>> Not really, and I believe its not amanda, but tar that imposes the
>> limits on this.  To tar, everything is relative to the directory
>> its currently processing, so the correct syntax there is indeed
>> the "./[a]*" (and the dbl quotes might even be optional.
>
>No, without the double quotes amcheck complains, as I found out the
> hard way earlier this week.

Well, I have a location or 2 in building amanda where the dbl quotes 
apparently aren't needed.  But I'm sure you're correct about this 
one, I wasn't.

Thanks for clarifying it.

>Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>      Geert
>
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>
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