10-17-2011
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Keepcase
This works
But if I remove the && operand the ftp portion executes immediately (I think) after the tar and when I view the tar on the ftp host, it only records the first file
It won't execute immediately, it will wait for tar.
If you had a stray & (single) after tar, that could have put tar into the background and caused those symptoms.
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