[Borgbackup] borg create is not accepting PATH with SPACE in it

[Marian Beermann]

Hi,

you will have to understand shell. This is not a Borg problem; it's a
shell problem.

> Even if I try to pass a single path (instead of a *cat* command) after
> REPO::ARCHIVE with space in it it fails.

In this case you will need quotes or escaping, e.g.

borg create ... "$HOME/My Documents"
(~ is not expanded by shells inside quotes, but variables are)

borg create ... '/home/amar/My Documents'
(No variables are expanded by shells inside single quotes)

borg create ... /home/amar/My\ Documents

Either of these three pass the same path to borg.

Now for the file problem.

The tl;dr is you don't want to do this yourself and this is the exact
reason Borg has --pattern-from and other applications things like @file
to read args from a file.

Without extra processing there is no way to pass the contents of a file
as multiple command arguments if you need escaping.

However, there is a standard utility that can be made to do this for
you. It's not really meant for this particular use case, but it'll work.

xargs borg create ... < $BORG_INCLUDE_FILE

The format of BORG_INCLUDE_FILE has to look like this:

'/home/amar/My Documents'
'/home/amar/My Pictures'
etc.

(If you add too many files to the list, xargs will start to run multiple
borg processes, which will cause errors or multiple archives containing
subsets)

-Marian