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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
My work is to write or design a script in bash shell script format for the Linux O/S Debian distro "Knoppix 6.7".
What the script needs to do is basically delete temporary files and back up data from one directory/folder to another designated Backup.
2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:
3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):
I'm not too sure on what else to do, and if I am doing it right!?
4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):
wanstead sixth form
london
england
Last edited by DukeNuke2; 11-29-2011 at 06:43 PM..
You're on the right path as far as I can tell. A couple of suggestions/comments
1) I'm not sure why you're running fsck in your first script. Typically fsck is run on a filesystem that is not mounted. Maybe your instructions indicate you should, but it's not something that I've commonly (if ever) done especially in a tmp cleaner.
2) Your options to tar might be mistyped. Did you mean to have tar do the gzipping? I gather you did from the name of the output file, but the options aren't correct if that is the case.
3) Verbose messages from tar will not be captured in your log file. Have a look at the tar man page, or run a small test at the command line to see how you can capture the verbose output (I assume you want to).
4) Indention will make the script much easier to read.
Hope this helps.
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One more thing I noticed.... You don't handle the log file the same when you have an error condition. If you want to copy it to the same spot regardless of the state (success or failure), then just have one copy command just before the exit which will take care of all cases.
You shouldn't be calling fsck on a booted system, yes, especially not fsck -A. If you're lucky it will refuse to do anything, if you're not, you could mess up your system.
You shouldn't be using * on something that could have lots of files.
You don't need to reopen $log 9,000 times to print 9,000 times. Open it once, and print to it.
Use printf, not "echo -e", as echo -e is not portable. Note that printf needs you to specify \n on the end when you want them.
Run date once and save it in a variable, or else the date might just change halfway through the script on an unlucky midnight.
Check the return values of things. Your script at present won't have any idea whether it succeeded or failed. Your script returns success even when it knows it failed, too.
And instead of nesting your if-statements, you should quit immediately. That way you can just list conditions to quit on instead of nesting 9 deep when checking 9 things.
If you want tar to make a tar.gz, you have to give it -z as well.
The "cd" is pointless since you're giving tar absolute paths anyway, you can remove it.
Note that pasting these together won't give you a complete script, I'm commenting on bits and pieces and advising what to change.
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