On 2013-09-17 14:41, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Backuppc is going to run the command with exec(), not system() so I
> don't think passing a double-quoted string is going to work even if
> you execute your own shell to parse it.   Is there some problem with
> putting the commands in a shell script file and making that your
> command?

I run only one command, but you can run multiple subshells under it with
backticks. For instance, this displays a notification to the user:

$sshPath -q -x -l root $host su `/bin/echo $user | /bin/sed 's/@.*//'` -c
"DISPLAY=':0' /usr/bin/notify-send \"BackupPC on venkman\" \"Beginning
$type backup on $client at `/bin/date +'%Y-%m-%d %T %Z'`\""

Regards,
Tyler

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