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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:08:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To: MET <met@uberstats.com>
Cc: "'freebsd-questions-en'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Forcing an Overwrite
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add "-f" to gzip.  man gzip for more info.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, MET wrote:

> Here is my shell script:
>
> ======================================
>
> 	#!/bin/sh
>
> 	DATE=`date +%m-%d-%Y`;
> 	ARCHIVED="MP_Site_Files-$DATE.tar";
>
> 	cd /usr/local/webroot/;
>
> 	tar -cvf $ARCHIVED mp_stable;
>
> 	yes|gzip -9 $ARCHIVED;
>
> ======================================
>
> Here is what I get spitted out.
>
> 	gzip: MP_Site_Files-08-21-2002.tar.gz already exists;   not
> overwritten
>
>
> Any ideas on how to make it over-write without flaw?
>
> ~ Matthew
>
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