Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:38:27 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Scott Gerhardt <scott@g-it.ca>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fwd: Help: tar & find Message-ID: <20031023113827.GD39601@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20031023113439.GC39601@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <7F19C442-0513-11D8-8F40-000393801C60@g-it.ca> <20031023113439.GC39601@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 12:34:40PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 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
Let's try that again, and fix the typo:
find $FILES_DIR -xdev -type f -iname "*.bak" -print0 | \
xargs -0 tar --remove-files -cvzpf $TAR_DIR/bak_files_`date +%F`.tar.g
Cheers,
Matthew
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