Running Tar from a Shell Script.

[keith smith]

That's on the horizon.  Today I need to get things tar'ed. 

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Keith Smith

--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org> wrote:

From: Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org>
Subject: Re: Running Tar from a Shell Script.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 1:59 PM


On Jul 27, 2010, at 3:54 PM, keith smith wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If I run "tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/" from the command line, less the quotes, it runs just fine with the exception of the one message that says "tar: Removing leading `/' from member names", which I am not sure exactly what that means.
> 
> If I create a shell script with two lines, as follows:
> 
>   #!/bin/bash
> 
> /bin/tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(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:
> 
> I am not sure why these errors.  Any help is much appreciated.

I know this isn't really answering your question, so apologies in advance for that...

Looks like you're backing up some development code?  Have you considered using a version control system instead?  Granted, you then need to make backups of your repositories, but you gain a whole wealth of other benefits.

alex
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