I am writing a backup script which uses a function to create a tar archive for a specified directory. For some reason though I cannot get tar to exclude a specified path when passed as a variable. The problem does not seem to be with the command though as it works when entered in the script directly.
This works except the specified directory is not excluded. If I put an 'echo' in front of the tar command it shows the $BUP_EXCLUDE variable is being set and with what I would expect. e.g.
Code:
tar --exclude='download/*' -czf /home/username/backup/name_of_archive.tgz ./
Wondering if the use of putting the whole exclusion option in a variable was a problem, as a test I rewrote the command as
Code:
tar --exclude='$3' -czf $BUP_ROOT/$1.tgz ./
This did not make any different though. As a final test I put the exclusion directly in the tar command
Code:
tar --exclude='download/*' -czf $BUP_ROOT/$1.tgz ./
This worked, the archive was created with the required path excluded. This leads me to think there is some problem with the shell passing the variable correctly rather than with the tar command. The wildcard is supposed to be a literal for tar to do its own pattern matching, and by testing with echo in front of the tar command it does seem to be passed as one, there is no globbing. I have even tried putting quotes around the $BUP_EXCLUDE" variable in the tar command to see if that helps with no effect.
The shell is BASH version 3.00.15 and I have tried searching for a solution with no luck so I hope I am missing something obvious here.
dear all
i trying to list all files within a directory. I want to exclude all subdirectory and some files, with using below statement, but it not exclude the files which start with "&" and end with "SL" , is there any things wrong with the below statement ?
TIA
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I'm looking for a bit of help. Im trying to search a file for lines that contain white spaces at the end of the lines. This is what I'm using where $param is the path and file name and it redirects the output to a txt file :
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4 files are returned when i issue 'find . -mtime -1 -type f -ls'.
./ora_475244.aud
./ora_671958.aud
./ora_934052.aud
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Hello Can you please help and check what im missing on script below
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#!/bin/sh
EXCLUDE=/path/to/exclude/exclude.dat
FIND=/bin/find
for xfile in '(read $EXCLUDE)'
do
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jan_t=jan;feb_t=feb;mar_t=mar;year=2010
jan_t=null;feb_t=feb;mar_t=mar;year=2010
jan_t=jan;feb_t=feb;mar_t=mar;year=2010
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while getopts l:d: OPTS; do
case $OPTS in
l) VALUE1=$OPTARG;;
d) VALUE2=$OPTARG;;
*) echo "$USAGE" && exit 2;;
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file1 looks like this:
DOGDOGNODOGTESTCAT
CATHELLOBYEEBYEFAT
CATCATDOGDOGCATYESGOOD
file2 looks like this:
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gpodder-backup
GPODDER-BACKUP(1) User Commands GPODDER-BACKUP(1)NAME
gpodder-backup - Backup and restore utility for gPodder user data
SYNOPSIS
gpodder-backup [--create|--extract] <archive.gpo.tar.gz> [options] gpodder-backup --purge
DESCRIPTION
This utility can be used to create a dump of the current gPodder data (configuration files + downloads), optionally replacing the real con-
tents of the download folder with zero-byte files (for submitting your data to a bug report without having to transfer lots of data).
OPTIONS --version
show program's version number and exit
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-c <FILE>, --create=<FILE>
Create a new archive
-x <FILE>, --extract=<FILE>
Extract an existing archive
-f, --fake-downloads
Store downloads as zero-byte files in backup
-n, --no-covers
Do not include cover files in archive
-D <DIR>, --destination=<DIR>
Extract downloads in different folder
-P, --purge
Remove current data (can be combined with --extract)
USAGE FOR BUG REPORTING
This command is useful if you want to report a bug in gPodder:
gpodder-backup --create bug123.gpo.tar.gz --fake-downloads
Backup your current data to file bug123.gpo.tar.gz, but don't store download data (create zero-size dummy files instead). You can
then attach bug123.gpo.tar.gz to the bug report.
If you are instructed to try gPodder from a "clean state", you can use the following command (be sure to backup your data before!):
gpodder-backup --purge
Remove all gPodder data, so you can start from a clean state
EXAMPLES
gpodder-backup --create today.gpo.tar.gz
Backup your current data to file today.gpo.tar.gz
gpodder-backup --extract mybackup.gpo.tar.gz
Restore (without purging) the contents of mybackup.gpo.tar.gz
gpodder-backup --extract default.gpo.tar.gz --purge
Remove current data, then restore the contents of default.gpo.tar.gz
gpodder-backup --purge
Remove all gPodder data, so you can start from a clean state
EXTRACTING FAKED DOWNLOADS
Please note that any existing downloads will be overwritten with zero-byte files when using the --extract option of the gpodder-backup
utility with a backup created with --fake-downloads
AUTHOR
gpodder-backup was written by Thomas Perl (thp@gpodder.org)
gpodder-backup 1.0 December 2010 GPODDER-BACKUP(1)