Date: 18 Feb 2004 14:20:51 -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: <44brnwtcrw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040218154803.GB587@bturtle.ch> References: <20040216210658.GB12702@bturtle.ch> <444qto8o5r.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20040218154803.GB587@bturtle.ch>
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bla@dayab.ch writes: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:20:32AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > bla@dayab.ch writes: > > 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... > > Sorry no, this way the colon is just escaped in the shell. True; I was just being careful there. I was hoping that the colon might be ignored if a slash had come first, on the theory that a slash would be illegal in the remote syntax anyway. It wouldn't be terribly hard to put such a check in; is it worth the effort?
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