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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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