Running Tar from a Shell Script.

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 07/27/2010 01:54 PM, keith smith wrote:
> If I create a shell script with two lines, as follows:
> 
>   #!/bin/bash
> 
> /bin/tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/
> 
> 
> I get the following output:
> 
> : command not founde 2:
> /bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> /bin/tar: /work/dev/\r: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> : command not founde 4:

Just taking a guess from the "\r", but was the script created on a
Windows or Macintosh computer and transferred to the current machine?
Check that it has unix line endings (newline only).

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