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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to tar/rsync/rm multiple folder names Post 302971197 by Don Cragun on Sunday 17th of April 2016 02:04:12 PM
Old 04-17-2016
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Originally Posted by robertkwild
But surely i dont want to continue the script if it fails on the taring rsync or removing

Thats why i put an exit statement instead so if fails it can let me know via email and exit the script

Also lets say i have multiple folders i want the script to run lets say it exits on the first tarring of folder 1, will it try and do folder 2 and so on so forth or will it exit altogther
Please look at post #12 in this thread again!

If you have five projects to archive and remove, and the tar on the first one fails; if you use exit, your script will exit and there will be absolutely no attempt to tar, rsync, and rm the other four projects. That is why I used continue instead of exit. Using continue, the script I suggested will stop processing the first project (if any step fails) but will then continue processing other projects until all five projects have been processed. When it is done processing all five projects (successfully or unsuccessfully), it will send you one e-mail giving you the status of all five projects (including the normal and diagnostic output produced by each command run in the script for each project). Isn't that what you want to do?
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

projects

projects(1)							   User Commands						       projects(1)

NAME

       projects - print project membership of user

SYNOPSIS

       projects [-dv] [ user]

       projects -l [projectname  [projectname...]]

DESCRIPTION

       The  projects  command prints on standard output the projects to which the invoking user or an optionally specified user belongs. Each user
       belongs to some set of projects specified in the project(4) file and possibly in the associated NIS maps and  LDAP  databases  for  project
       information.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -d	Prints only default project.

       -l	Prints verbose info on each project projectname. If no projectnames are given, info on all projects is printed.

       -v	Prints project descriptions along with project names.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       projectnaDisplay information for the specified project.

       user	Displays project memberships for the specified user.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Displaying Membership for a Specified User

       example$ projects paul
       default beatles wings
       example$ projects ringo
       default beatles
       example$ projects -d paul
       beatles

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful completion.

       1	A fatal error occurred during execution.

       2	Invalid command line options were specified.

FILES

       /etc/project    Local database containing valid project definitions for this machine.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Stability		     |See below.		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       The invocation is Evolving. The human-readable output is Unstable.

SEE ALSO

       getdefaultproj(3PROJECT), getprojent(3PROJECT), project(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    13 May 2004 						       projects(1)
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