Re: [Help-bash] BASH quotation question...

[John Kearney]

you need

STARTDIR="/cygdrive/c/Users/

Barry/Douments"
cd "$STARTDIR"

SRC=""> TARGET="Work\ Week\ 2012.09.12"
mkdir "$TARGET"

i.e. quote the variables when you use them.

and its not a bad idea to get into the habit of writting it more like this

mkdir "${TARGET}"

cheers

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Barry Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

I just found this "help list" mentioned on
http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html . There were no
instructions on subscribing, so I haven't subscribed, and might never
know if there are followup responses.  Please reply to the list
archive, and CC me on responses.

HELP please, oh gods of bash!
Thank you in advance.

My environment is Windows 7 Home Premium / cygwin / Bash 4.1.10(4)-release.

I am writing a "simple" bash script to set up for a backup to DVD, but
am having problems setting variables to directory names with spaces,
and then using the variables in mkdir / cp / mv / rm / md5sum
commands.

Here is the nuts and bolts of the second script that does a md5sum,
cp, check after cp, then rm.  I have coded an exit that I will move
down the script as I test.

Current logic fail -- the "mkdir" is creating multiple directories
(due to the spaces in the name), not just ONE directory with spaces in
the directory name.
---
#!/bin/bash
# Proper header for a Bash script.

STARTDIR="/cygdrive/c/Users/Barry/Douments"
cd $STARTDIR

SRC=""> TARGET="Work\ Week\ 2012.09.12"
mkdir $TARGET

# FLOATING EXIT
exit # The right and proper method of "exiting" from a script.
     # A bare "exit" (no parameter) returns the exit status
     #+ of the preceding command.
# FLOATING EXIT

cd $SRC

FILE=dvd.md5
if [ -f $FILE ];
then
   echo "2-- EXISTS File $FILE in $SRC"
   echo "3-- REMOVE"
   # rm -f $FILE
else
   echo "4-- MISSING File $FILE in $SRC"
fi

md5sum ./* > dvd.md5

md5sum -c dvd.md5

cd ..

cp -Rf $SRC/* $TARGET/

cd $TARGET/ && md5sum -c ./dvd.md5 && cd ..

rm -Rf ./$SRC/*
rmdir ./$SRC/
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