Running Tar from a Shell Script.

[keith smith]

Okay it was a DOS carriage return.  I did a dos2unix filename.sh and all is well!!

Thanks!



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Keith Smith

--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Mark Stoecker <webmaster at desertwebdesigns.com> wrote:

From: Mark Stoecker <webmaster at desertwebdesigns.com>
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, 2:07 PM





  
"tar: Removing leading `/' from member names" is because you are not
running the tar command from within the directory you are archiving. 
Use the -C switch to specify the directory you want to run tar from.



tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz -C /work/dev/ *



That will switch to the /work/dev directory and run tar from there,
backing up everything in it.



On 7/27/2010 1:54 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.

        

        

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