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I don't mind rewriting it if it solves the problem.

You mentioned tar could hold the original path. Could you please elaborate? How would that work?

Yeah, but I have another script which I use for restoring the files again. If I use tarball, that complicates the behavior of the restore script. Also, I'm also backing up whole folders in some...

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I have a script which takes backup of some configuration files on my server. It does that by using an array which contains the complete path to the files to backup.

It copys the files to a pre...

Oh thanks so much, I didn't realize the "done" tag could wreck it, thats why I didn't move it the first time you mentioned it.

#!/bin/bash
name=`whoami`
exmark="!"
input=""
prompt="hoose your poison: "

normal=`echo "\033[m"`
aqua=`echo "\033[36m"`
yellow=`echo "\033[33m"`
whiteOnRed=`echo "\033[41m"`
red=`echo...

I tried 'function menu {', 'menu() {' and the example in my post - nothing works, same error.

Thanks for pointing out I'm missing "done" at the end - I have it in the script, but forgot to move it...

I have a bash menu script (read-based), which I'm trying to add submenus to. Long story short, for that to work I need to put part of the code into a function. However, that won't work. Shell just...