09-19-2010
Tried it, got an error:
Quote:
bash-2.05$ cd /home/dir1 ; tar cvf a.tar `ls -la | grep ^d | grep -Ev '\.\.$|\.$' | sed 's/.* //'`
grep: illegal option -- E
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
tar: Missing filenames
If I remove E, the command runs, but it tars up everything under/home, not just dir1
The part in ` ` gives all the dirs under /home/dir1 that I want to backup, just tar behaves weirdly. Any ideas?
8 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Dear Folks,
I have to backup pgsql database dump everynight on a routine. The database dump actually contains sql(text) statements. The actual size of the database dump is aroung 800 MB. Between two days backup, only few lines of statements are modified/added/deleted.
I dont want to do... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rssrik
1 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a job that will be running nightly incremental backsup of a large directory tree.
I did the initial backup, now I want to write a script to verify that all the files were transferred correctly. I did something like this which works in principle on small trees:
diff -r -q... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: same1290
6 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
can someone give me a script to tar files that is older than 5 days in a directory that is not something like this:
fileArray=($(find -mtime +5 asdfasdf))
tar -cvf asfadfasdfa ${fileArray}
as the Unix I'm using has some problem with ($( )), I need another way to tar files in the folder.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: s3270226
1 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have constant trouble with XCOPY/s for multi-gigabyte transfers.
I need a utility like XCOPY/S that remembers where it left off if I reboot. Is there such a utility? How about a free utility (free as in free beer)?
How about an md5sum sanity check too?
I posted the above query in another... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: siegfried
3 Replies
5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Find all files in the current directory only excluding hidden directories and files.
For the below command, though it's not deleting hidden files.. it is traversing through the hidden directories and listing normal which should be avoided.
`find . \( ! -name ".*" -prune \) -mtime +${n_days}... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ksailesh1
7 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
RootFolderI:
RootFolderI/FolderA/Subfolder1/Subsub1/JPG1.jpg -> want this jpg
RootFolderI/FolderA/Subfolder2/Subsub1/JPG2.jpg -> want this jpg
RootFolderI/FolderA/Subfolder2/Subsub2/JPG3.jpg
. . .
RootFolderI/FolderB/Subfolder1/Subsub1/JPG4.jpg -> want this jpg
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: blocnt
1 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Can somebody please show me how to check from within a KSH script if a directory exists on that same host when parts of the directory tree are unknown?
If these wildcard dirs were the only dirs at that level then ...
RETCODE=$(ls -l /u01/app/oracle/local/*/* | grep target_dir) ... will... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: user052009
4 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello.
I use this command :
rsync -av --include=".*" --dry-run "$A_FULL_PATH_S" "$A_FULL_PATH_D"The data comes from the output of a find command.
And no full source directories are in use, only some files.
Source example... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcdole
2 Replies
ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)
NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the
standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)
ZGREP(1)