Running Tar from a Shell Script.

[Alex Dean]

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

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