Re: hot-backup.py

[Gavin Band]
> If the name contains double quotes, neither version seems to work.
> I'm afraid I don't know a way around this - is there a simple way to
> turn a filename into a fully-escaped version?

In perl you'd execute the command using a list instead of a string -
that way no word splitting is done, either by perl or by a shell. I
would assume python has a similar facility, to run fork+exec / spawn
directly rather than through system() or popen() ... right?