Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:34:40 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Scott Gerhardt <scott@g-it.ca> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fwd: Help: tar & find Message-ID: <20031023113439.GC39601@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7F19C442-0513-11D8-8F40-000393801C60@g-it.ca> References: <7F19C442-0513-11D8-8F40-000393801C60@g-it.ca>
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:43:50PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
>
> I am having trouble combining the tar and find command. I want to tar
> and
> delete all .bak,.Bak,.BAK files.
>
> I am using the following command but keep receiving errors. The tar
> command
> appears to be receiving a truncated file/path (some of the time, but not
> always), and trying to procecss the file as two files.
>
> Any help on this would be great.
>
> The script is as follows
> =========================================
> #! /bin/bash
> set +x
> TAR_DIR=/home/tarbackups;
> FILES_DIR=/home/common;
> tar --remove-files -cvzpf $TAR_DIR/bak_files_`date +%F`.tar.gz\
> `find $FILES_DIR -xdev -type f -iname "*.bak"`;
> ==========================================
> The -xdev is to not desend into an external smb-mounted drive to a
> subdirectory.
>
> I have also tried substituting single quotes for the double quotes
> around the
> *.bak
>
> Here is some error output returned:
>
> tar: jobs/ROOF: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: LAYOUTS/RESIDENTIAL/FRASER/219: Cannot stat: No such file or
> directory
> tar: LEWIS: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: CRES.bak: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: /home/technical/nfsapc30-my_documents/1999: Cannot stat: No such
> file or
> directory
> tar: jobs/ROOF: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: LAYOUTS/RESIDENTIAL/FRASER/THODE: Cannot stat: No such file or
> directory
> tar: RES.bak: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
The problem is that you have file/directory names like 'ROOF LAYOUTS'
which contain spaces and possibly other filenames containing
characters with syntactic significance to the shell.
Try:
find $FILES_DIR -xdev -type f -iname "*.bak -print0 | \
xargs -0 tar --remove-files -cvzpf $TAR_DIR/bak_files_`date +%F`.tar.gz
Cheers,
Matthew
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