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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to tar/rsync/rm multiple folder names Post 302971739 by robertkwild on Monday 25th of April 2016 06:42:57 AM
Old 04-25-2016
so its this

Code:
if ! tar cf "${DIR}".tar "${DIR}"
then    mail -s "tar failed $DIR" $MailAddress <<< "creating of tar $DIR failed due to error, removing $DIR.tar"
rm -f "$DIR".tar
continue
fi

 

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