Tricky Quoting Issue in BASH

[Charles Curley]

I'd like to run an rsync command to do backups, with an exclude
pattern. I can build what looks like a perfectly good command, echo
it, then run it. But the exclude pattern is ignored. However, if I
copy the echoed command line and execute it directly, it works and the
exclude pattern is respected.

Something like:


    # options to feed to rsync

    opts="-va --exclude '*~' --delete --delete-excluded"

    ....


    cmd="rsync $opts $internal$back/ $external$back"

    echo $cmd

    $cmd


Thanks

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