Re: Problem using -E option with paths containing spaces

Hi Denis, again.

Your email put me on the right path, I added "\'" around the paths 
provided to the -E option in a configuration file.

create:
   -E '\'@@CONFDIR@@/dar_par_create.duc\' "%p" "%b" "%N" "%e" "%c" 5'

That did the trick :-)

Thank you for helping me out.

Cheers
Per


Den 12.04.2022 kl. 07.58 skrev Per Jensen:
> Hi Denis,
> 
> Many thanks for you very thorough answer, much appreciated. I will 
> dabble more with different kinds of quoting to get it working :-)
> 
> Best regards
> Per
> 
> Den 11.04.2022 kl. 22.50 skrev Denis Corbin:
>> Le 11/04/2022 à 15:43, Per Jensen a écrit :
>>> All,
>>
>> Hi Per,
>>
>>>
>>> I have an issue making dar (I think) run a par2 script when the path to
>>> the par2 script has spaces in directory names.
>>
>> I tried this simple test:
>>
>> cd /tmp
>> mkdir "With Space"
>> cp /bin/ls With\ Space
>> dar -c test -s 1M -E '/tmp/With\ Space/ls %p/%b.%N.%e' -N
>> Warning: using insecure memory!
>> /tmp/test.1.dar
>> /tmp/test.2.dar
>> /tmp/test.3.dar
>> /tmp/test.4.dar
>> /tmp/test.5.dar
>> /tmp/test.6.dar
>> /tmp/test.7.dar
>> /tmp/test.8.dar
>> [...]
>>
>> so to my point of view, there does not seem to be any problem when the
>> path given to -E option contains space.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> This works (using escaped spaces in path to the -E option):
>>> ==========================================
>>> ➜ ~/.local/bin/dar_static_2.7.4 -Q -c '/tmp/TEST_FULL_2022-04-11' -N -B
>>> '/tmp/  abc/   def/dar-backup-test/bin/../backups.d/TEST' -E '/tmp/\ \
>>> abc/\ \ \ def/dar-backup-test/bin/../conf/dar_par_create.duc "%p" "%b"
>>> "%N" "%e" "%c" 5'
>>> PAR2 started: "/tmp/  abc/
>>> def/dar-backup-test/bin/../conf/dar_par_create.duc"
>>> creating PAR file for file /tmp/TEST_FULL_2022-04-11.1.dar ...
>>
>>
>> You have to take into account that the command you type on the shell
>> prompt is first interpreted before being passed to dar. Then the
>> argument given to -E option is passed to a second shell for execution:
>>
>> The shell job is to split the long string you type at the prompt, into
>> words. Words are separated by spaces unless spaces are escaped or when
>> spaces are quoted (simple quote (') double quoted (") back quote (`) all
>> having a different meaning for most shells but still avoid space to be
>> considered as word separator).
>>
>> So when you type at the shell prompt the following string
>>     dar -E "Hello world"
>> the shell CLI parser will provide three words, which I put between
>> brackets for clarity:
>>     [dar] [-E] [Hello world]
>>
>> Note that the double quotes (") have been removed by the shell.
>> dar is then executed with two arguments [-E] and [Hello world] given by
>> the shell.
>>
>> dar's work is then to pass the word following "-E" to a new shell
>> process. This second shell will read the string [Hello wolrd] as if you
>> have typed it at the prompt and will also split it into words, leading
>> to this list of words:
>>     [Hello] [world]
>>
>> If the command you want dar to run is not "Hello" but "Hello world" you
>> have to quote/escape twice the spaces, once for the shell you use to run
>> dar from, and a second time for the shell that dar runs to interpret the
>> argument given to -E option.
>>
>> in my example I can use the following instead of escaping the space(s):
>>
>> dar -c test -s 1M -E '"/tmp/With Space/ls" %p/%b.%N.%e' -N
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Denis
>>
>>