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If you have gnu tar you can use --strip=3 to remove the /var/foo/bar.

Good to also use --show-transformed if you're using the -v option to list what's being extracted.

SIGHUP is sent to processes when their controlling terminal is closed. You may be interested in reading the nohup(1) man page if you'd like a process to ignore that signal.

Regards,
Alister

Pipe the output from sed to a shell.
sed '....' orig-script | ksh

As the file is a shellscript of some kind make the script do the work:
myscript [switches] args... # does the rm/tar
myscript -n [switches] args ... # do not do rm/tarAt the start of the...

Other posters please note that the O/P has ftp not sftp.



First time you have mentioned passwords. Obviously if your ftp command file has permissions 600 this is pretty secure.

In the end...

function makeBackup ()
{
loc="$1"
[ $# -ne 1 ] && echo "Please enter one location to backup" && return 1
[ -d "$loc" ] || echo "Location must be a directory" || return 2
mkdir -p...

How about this - it does do three searches thru the location (for each of the filetypes) but I can't think of a way to find all three filetypes and then have them moved to the right folers.
...

find /var/root/Applications/ -type d "fooBar* -maxdepth 1 2>/dev/null | while read dir
do
[ -d "$dir/Documents" ] && echo $dir/Documents
done

or

for dir in...