#396007 dirvish: no documentation on how to handle dirnames containg whitespace (escape)

#396007#5
Date:
2006-10-29 11:26:32 UTC
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Package: dirvish
Version: 1.2.1-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,
I was kind of surprised that it did not manage to find documentation
on how to handle this:
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Backup »/media/xpsystem/Dokumente und Einstellungen« and exclude both
»**/Lokale Einstellungen/Temp/« and
»**/Temporary Internet Files/«.
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@argenau:$ zgrep -i escape `dlocate -L dirvish` | wc
      0       0       0

Simply specifying
tree: /media/xpsystem/Dokumente und Einstellungen
cannot work, as the syntac for tree is "tree: path [alias]", i.e. this
would specify tree=/media/xpsystem/Dokumente with an alias of "und
Einstellungen".

Anyway, I just guessed and luckily escaping by using a \ worked for
me both in the specification of tree and in exclude patterns.
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client: argenau
tree: /media/xpsystem/Dokumente\ und\ Einstellungen
xdev: 1
index: gzip
image-default: %Y%m%d
exclude:
	*.bak
	**Classic/LOGFILES/Upd**
	**Classic/REPORTS/
	**Classic/TEMP
	**Classic/UPGRADE/
	Mozilla/Profiles/**/Cache/
	**/Temporary\ Internet\ Files/
	Anwendungsdaten/Sun/Java/Deployment/cache/
	**/Cookies/
	**/Lokale\ Einstellungen/Temp/
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it would be nice if the documentation mentioned that.

thanks, cu andreas