The backslashes are an issue, in a sense -- you missed one So it was trying to find a file named --exclude=... to execute.
If any of those folders contain spaces in their name, they need to be quoted. You might as well just quote all of them, to be safe. In double-quotes this time, since variables don't work inside single-quotes.
Code:
cd /var/www/"{SITE}"
tar -cvf "${WORKING_BACKUP_ROOT}/${TAR_ARCHIVE_FILE}" \
--exclude="${WORKING_BACKUP_ROOT}/${TAR_ARCHIVE_FILE}" \
--exclude='/var/www/abcCompany/cache' \
--exclude='/var/www/abcCompany/administrator/cache' . >"/${BACKUP_ROOT}/${ARCHIVE_LOG}"
Hi !
i have to write a script that archivs homes not used since 3 years.
First, my script gathers the users that are concerned, using the following command :
ll -lt /home/*/.sh_history | egrep '2000|1999|1998|1997' | awk '{print $3}'
i obtain a list like this :
user_1
user_2
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Dear All , :D
I have a question ... I need to exclude the absolute path in the TAR process.
For example :
system("tar cvf /root/BACKUPS_$fecha.tar /root/BKP/");
system("gzip /root/BACKUPS_$fecha.tar");
I need to exclude de path " /root/BKP/ " in the file.tar.gz
What is the parameter to... (1 Reply)
Guys,
I have a script that should change one of the configuration Parameter in a http accelerator, this config change which will halt http traffic into device. So I have designed a script which should do these changes. But after executing this script, found that one of the input variable is not... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
In a directory, I have many video files. Example :
As you can see, some of the video files come with a .aspx file (wich
means the video is actually being uploaded and not entirely written on
the FS)
I try to write a bash script that would find all video files in the
... (1 Reply)
Hello everyone. I am new to shell scripting and i am required to create a shell script, the purpose of which i will explain below.
I am on a solaris server btw.
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i have issue with tar, let me explain
when i run below command it works perfectly as usual.
tar -cvf /tmp/temp.tar --exclude="exclusion expression" dir
my requirement is --exclude="exclusion expression" will come from another variable.
so when i execute below command:
tar -cvf... (2 Replies)
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Hi, im having some issues after i execute the next command:
tar -cvf /varios/restore/test.tar -X /jfma/test1/excludefile /jfma | gzip -c > /varios/restore/test.tar.gz
this creates the desired "test.tar.gz" file, but whe i try to open it it says "tar: 0511-164 There is a media read or write... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing shell script to automate few use cases for CLI interface. We have CLI interface which has bunch of commands. I am trying to execute one of the commands 'exit' as part of automation to exit from CLI object (not from shell script) in my shell script.
My intension is to execute... (4 Replies)
Hi,
uname -a
SunOS mymac 5.11 11.2 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
I need to tar a folder /tmp/moht but do not want these three folders to be included in the tar file -> savejpg, bmpsave and imgsave
I tried --exclude, -path, -not options but it says bad option
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
rc-alert
RC-ALERT(1) General Commands Manual RC-ALERT(1)NAME
rc-alert - check for installed packages with release-critical bugs
SYNOPSIS
rc-alert [inclusion options] [--debtags [tag[,tag ...]] [--popcon] [package ...]
rc-alert --help|--version
DESCRIPTION
rc-alert downloads the list of release-critical bugs from the Debian BTS webpages, and then outputs a list of packages installed on the
system, or given on the command-line, which are in that list.
If the directory ~/.devscripts_cache exists or the --cache option is given, then the (sizable) downloaded list will be cached, and will
only be downloaded again on a second invocation if it has changed.
OPTIONS --cache
Force the creation of the ~/.devscripts_cache cache directory.
--help, -h
Show a summary of options.
--version, -v
Show version and copyright information.
It is also possible to filter the list of bugs reported based on the tags and distributions associated with the package. The filtering
options are:
--include-tags, -f
A list of tags which the bug must have, in the format used for output. For example, to include bugs tagged security or help wanted,
use "SH".
--include-tag-op, -t
If set to and, a bug must have all of the tags specified by --include-tags.
--exclude-tags
A list of tags which the bug must not have, in the same format as --include-tags.
--exclude-tag-op
If set to and, a bug must have none of the tags specified by --exclude-tags. By default, the bug will be excluded if any tag
matches.
--include-dists, -d
A list of distributions which the bug must apply to, in the format used for output. For example, to include bugs affecting testing
or unstable, use "TU".
--include-dist-op, -o
If set to and, a bug must apply to all of the specified distributions in order to be included.
--exclude-dists
A list of distributions to which the bug must not apply, in the same format as --include-dists.
--exclude-dist-op
If set to and, a bug must apply to all of the specified distributions in order to be excluded. By default the bug will be excluded
if it applies to any of the listed distributions.
It is also possible to only list bugs which have specific debtags set. Note that you need to have debtags installed and also that it's not
mandatory for maintainers to set proper debtags. The produced list will thus probably be incomplete.
--debtags
Match packages based on the listed tags. Each package is matched only if it has all the listed tags; in the case of multiple tags
within the same facet, a package is matched if it has any of the listed tags within the facet.
--debtags-database
Use a non-standard debtags database. The default is /var/lib/debtags/packages-tags.
Popularity-contest collects data about installation and usage of Debian packages. You can additionally sort the bugs by the popcon rank of
the related packages.
--popcon
Sort bugs by the popcon rank of the package the bug belongs to.
--pc-vote
By default, packages are sorted according to the number of people who have the package installed. This option enables sorting by the
number of people regularly using the package instead. This option has no effect in combination with --pc-local.
--pc-local
Instead of requesting remote data the information from the last popcon run is used (/var/log/popularity-contest).
EXAMPLES --include-dists OS
The bug must apply to at least one of oldstable or stable
--include-dists TU --include-dist-op and
The bug must apply to both testing and unstable
--include-dists O --include-tags S --exclude-tags +
The bug must apply to oldstable and be tagged security but not patch
--exclude-dists SOT --include-tags R
The bug must apply to only unstable or experimental (or both) and be tagged unreproducible
--debtags implemented-in::perl,role::plugin,implemented-in::python
The bug must apply to packages matching the specified debtags, i.e. the match will only include packages that have the 'role::plug-
in' tag and that have either of the tags 'implemented-in::perl' or 'implemented-in::python'.
--popcon --pc-local
Read /var/log/popularity-contest and sort bugs by your personal popcon ranking (which is basically the atime of your packages' bina-
ries).
BUGS
It is not possible to say "does not apply only to unstable"
SEE ALSO debtags(1)popbugs(1)popularity-contest(8)AUTHOR
rc-alert was written by Anthony DeRobertis and modified by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> and Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
for the devscripts package. Debtags and popcon functionality was added by Jan Hauke Rahm <info@jhr-online.de>.
DEBIAN Debian Utilities RC-ALERT(1)
03-15-2012
So it was trying to find a file named --exclude=... to execute.