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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:16:28 +0100
From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc: MET <met@uberstats.com>,
	"'freebsd-questions-en'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Forcing an Overwrite
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:08:16PM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> 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?

Try this:

    #!/bin/sh

    ARCHIVE="MP_Site_Files-$(date +%m-%d-%Y).tar.gz
    GZIP="-9" ; export GZIP

    tar -zcvf - mp_stable > $ARCHIVE

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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