Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:40:04 -0800 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: mathias@haas.se Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell scripting woes Message-ID: <20040224164004.11f27d1d.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <51804.193.14.163.194.1077641809.squirrel@mail.haas.se> References: <51804.193.14.163.194.1077641809.squirrel@mail.haas.se>
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:56:49 +0100 (CET)
mathias@haas.se wrote:
> Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
Your second question seems to have been addressed, so here's something
for your first question...
> 1) I have a backup job that 'tar's a lot of files and currently I
> redirect all output of the job to a log. Tar unfortunately lists all
> directories that it goes through, even if nothing is 'tar'ed in those
> directories. So my logfile contains all my directories. I want to
> filter out all lines in my tar-log that ends with slash ("/") since
> those are directories. I want to sort of do an inverse grep on the
> last character when tarring. Like: tar -cvf myback.tar |grep -v "all
> lines that end with slash" > log.txt. All files that are backed up
> contain the whole directory path (that's how I want it) - so I can't
> simply do a reverse grep for the slash-char. Maybe you could do
> something with awk? I'm a total rookie with awk, so I'm lost there...
Try
tar -cvf myback.tar | grep -v '/$'
The $ in the grep pattern indicates "end of line".
-Chris
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