On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:35 AM,  <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> 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?
>  >

> Well, I perhaps wrongly assumed it work since I know it does work when
> I pass 'bash -c' as part of my ssh command and use double
> quotes... but I recall that it is a bit tricky of when and how to use
> and to escape the different nested quotes...

Actually it should work if you can figure out the right quoting (and
escaping from perl) to get the command passed through to the shell but
that part isn't straightforward.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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