directory name with space and bash

I'd like to exclude the directories "temp" and "Ubuntu One/" from backup. What is the correct escaping of the space????

RSYNCCONF="--delete --exclude=.* --exclude=temp/"

Thanks in advance!

• Chris

Edit/PS:

excludes=( ".*" temp/ "Ubuntu One/" )' 'RSYNCCONF="${excludes[@]/#/--exclude=}" 

and

$RSYNC -e "$S" -avR $FROMSSH:$SOURCE ${RSYNCCONF[@]} $TARGET$TODAY $INC >> $LOG 2>&1 

didn't work. I'd really appreciate any advice.

This is the script: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/_attachment?target=Skripte%2FBackup_mit_RSYNC%2Fbackup.sh

If you're building up options in a string, you'll run into problems when you try to use it (rsync "$RSYNCCONF"). Better to use an array -- when you dereference the array, each element will be properly handled by the shell:

RSYNCCONF=( --delete '--exclude=.*' --exclude=temp/ '--exclude="Ubuntu One/"' )
rsync "${RSYNCCONF[@]}"

Put it into single quotes:

RSYNCCONF="--delete --exclude=.* --exclude=temp/ --exclude='Ubuntu One/' "

or put a backslash before the space:

RSYNCCONF="--delete --exclude=.* --exclude=temp/ --exclude=Ubuntu\\ One/ "

Here's one way of doing it.

excludes=( ".*" temp/ "Ubuntu One/" )
rsync --delete "${excludes[@]/#/--exclude=}"

Note that the above uses bash syntax, so it won't work with sh. Also, the quotes are vital, do not omit them.

See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/WordSplitting for an explanation of why putting more than one argument into a string variable is wrong.

EDIT: From the pastebin in your comments, this seems to be what you want.

#!/bin/bash

source=/home/chris/
backupdir=/media/alteplatte/backups
backupname=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)-cd
excludes=( ".*" temp/ "Ubuntu One/" )
linkdest=$backupdir/link

if [[ -d $backupdir ]]; then
    rsync -av ${linkdest:+"--link-dest=$linkdest"} --delete \
          "${excludes[@]/#/--exclude=}" "$source" "$backupdir/$backupname"
else
    echo "$0: $backupdir: Not a directory, make sure the filesystem is mounted" >&2
    exit 1
fi