Date: 18 Feb 2004 09:20:32 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: bla@dayab.ch Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump and : Message-ID: <444qto8o5r.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040216210658.GB12702@bturtle.ch> References: <20040216210658.GB12702@bturtle.ch>
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bla@dayab.ch writes: > just stumbled over this. If I try to do a dump to a file which has a ':' > in its name or path, dump tries to connect to a server (which is > obvious as this is the notation for a remote dump). Precisely. > example: > # dump -f some:file /var > DUMP: rcmd: getaddrinfo: hostname nor servname provided, or not known > DUMP: login to some as root failed. > > escaping (dump -f "some\:file" /var) does not work. Right; it's not the shell that you need to hide the colon from, so escaping it in the shell syntax won't make any difference. > Is this behaviour > intended? Yes; as you pointed out yourself, it's the notation for remote host access. > Is there a workaround? (besides making a symlink w/o the : in > the name or using another filename/path) I haven't tried this, but from looking at the man page, I might expect dump -f /path/to/dump/dir/some\:file to work... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"
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