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Old 01-29-2013
Archiving in Perl
Hi Guys

i am experiencing this problem when trying to archive a file in perl. the files name is created dynamically. (my $date = `date +"%d%m%Y"`Smilie
Code:
`tar czf /opt/memex/backups/Complete$date.tar.gz /opt/memex/backups/Complete$date`;

error message:
Code:
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
sh: line 1: .tar.gz: command not found
sh: line 2: /: is a directory

If you could please help with this.

Than you in advance
Last edited by Franklin52; 01-29-2013 at 03:35 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
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Old 01-29-2013
seems your $date variable has \n

do chomp($date); before the tar command
Last edited by itkamaraj; 01-29-2013 at 04:07 AM.. Reason: Correcting the spelling of chomp
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Old 01-29-2013
I have added that, thank you. i will inform tomorrow morning as it is part of our back up process
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Old 01-29-2013
hi.. there is a spelling mistake in chomp

it should be chomp($date);

please correct it.
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Old 01-29-2013
Hi .. thanks i got it as chomp the 1st time . i know a bit of perl. not too new at it but i haven't studied it so these small bugs still allude me.

thank you.
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