01-20-2009
Using Variable With Space In It?
Hey , I'm new to Bash and am having trouble with writing a script.
I have a variable and want to use it to create a tar file, but, I am having problems. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
filestr=`date "+%y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S"`.tar
tar -cvf $filestr test.txt
So, basically, I'm creating a tar file based on the datetime in a specific format, but, the problem is that there is a space in the file name, so, the script fails during the tar creation.
Any ideas?
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EXIT STATUS
The script exits with status code 0 if everything went well, and nonzero if it encountered trouble.
EXAMPLES
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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
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This script requires a SUSv2 compliant pax utility.
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