Space in Dir Name with shell script and tar

Troy talexander@veeco.com
Thu Jan 18 03:04:00 GMT 2007


Thanks,

This worked

DIRECTORY_TO_BACKUP="/cygdrive/g/Mark I+/Experimental Data"
tar -czvpf $NAME_OF_BACKUP.tgz "$DIRECTORY_TO_BACKUP"

Troy

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