Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Cannot handle "$" in the filename for destination or logfile

[Scott Dwyer]

Sometimes it is the simple things that catch us off guard, I totally 
missed that. It shows my inexperience with programming, and I have also 
been overloading my brain with writing in C for the first time, and 
learning as I go.
That make it good again. Thanks.

On 4/6/2013 4:32 PM, Matthew Ruffalo wrote:
> Hi Scott-
>
> This is not ddrescue behavior; this is your shell (presumably bash) 
> expanding $MFT into the (empty) contents of the variable named MFT. 
> ddrescue is dutifully writing to exactly the file name that it is given.
>
> To prevent this variable expansion, use single quotes:
>
> $ echo "inode_0_$MFT"
> inode_0_
> $ echo 'inode_0_$MFT'
> inode_0_$MFT
>
> MMR...
>
> On 04/06/2013 04:20 PM, Scott Dwyer wrote:
> > This would probably not be a bug to anyone else but me, but as I 
> > might have mentioned before, I am working on software to use ddrescue 
> > to extract individual files from a disk. My problem is that the "$" 
> > in the file name for either the destination file or the log file 
> > causes part of the name to not appear.
> >
> > The command:
> > ddrescue  -i16384 -o0 -s258048 /dev/sdb1 "inode_0_$MFT" 
> > "inode_0_part0_$MFT.log"
> >
> > Results in the destination file name to be "inode_0_", and the 
> > logfile name to be "inode_0_part0_". From my testing it seems that 
> > anything after the $ until the next special character is lost.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Scott
> >
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