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Top Forums Programming Shell script - if statements dont work Post 302987170 by robertkwild on Tuesday 6th of December 2016 10:18:12 AM
Old 12-06-2016
i worked it out but thank you for everyones help, i had to quote all the variables

Code:
#!/bin/bash

    echo "is this archive for an audio tar (press 1) or an audio directory (press 2)"
    read method

    case $method in
        1)
            echo "please specify full path to directory where the tar file is in"
            read -e dir
            cd $dir

            echo "please copy/paste filename here of tar file (including .tar)"
            read -e tar

            echo "please enter ID number ie ID1234"
            read id

            echo "please specify where you want the tar file to be stored"
            read -e dest

            if ! mv "$tar" "$id"_"$tar" ; then
                echo "something went wrong with the mv command, please do manually"
                exit
            fi

            if ! rsync -avh "$id"_"$tar" $dest ; then
                echo "something went wrong with the rsync command, please do manually"
                exit
            fi

            if ! rm -f "$id"_"$tar" ; then
                echo "something went wrong with the rm command, please do manually"
                exit
            fi
                
            ;;

        2)
            i have yet to do this one, but this is the directory one
            ;;


        *)
            echo "invalid selection, please re-run the script"
            exit

            ;;

    esac

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

bf_tar

BF_TAR(1)																 BF_TAR(1)

NAME

       bf_tar - shell script to write a tar file of a bogofilter directory to stdout

SYNOPSIS

       bf_tar [-r] [-R] bogofilter_directory

DESCRIPTION

       bf_tar bundles a bogofilter working directory in tar format and copies it to standard output (your console, or where you redirect it, see
       EXAMPLES below).

OPTIONS

       The -r option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files after the archive has been written successfully. The default is to leave log
       files.

       The -R option causes bf_tar to remove inactive log files before the archive is written. This may reduce chances that the resulting archive
       is recoverable should it become damaged. The archive may be smaller though. The default is to leave log files.

EXIT STATUS

       The script exits with status code 0 if everything went well, and nonzero if it encountered trouble.

EXAMPLES

       o  bf_tar ~/.bogofilter > outfile.tar

	  Writes a standard .tar file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.

       o  bf_tar ~/.bogofilter | gzip -9 -c > outfile.tar.gz

	  Writes a gzipped .tar.gz file containing the essential files from ~/.bogofilter to outfile.tar.gz.

       o  bf_tar `pwd`/mydirectory > outfile.tar

	  Prepend $(pwd)/ or `pwd`/ if you want to specify an absolute path instead of a relative path.

NOTES

       This script is meant for use with Berkeley DB based bogofilter versions.

       This script requires a SUSv2 compliant pax utility.

       This script expects a SUSv2 compliant shell. Solaris systems should have the SUNWxcu4 package installed (when bogofilter is configured) so
       that /usr/xpg4/bin/sh can be used.

								    07/23/2007								 BF_TAR(1)
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