Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:14:07 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Zip file making issues Message-ID: <4C983F1F.700@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <70BA7AC2-7300-41F6-9D3E-7AFEAD7F533E@d3photography.com> References: <A166139D-842F-4ACA-B8B3-687A8C6ECE01@d3photography.com> <F7E03E13906D419C8417713D17CF49C9@hermes> <70BA7AC2-7300-41F6-9D3E-7AFEAD7F533E@d3photography.com>
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On 21/09/2010 04:53:58, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> As I said in my OP: I could just run a "cd" to the directory parent
> and do it there - that would solve the problem - but that's simply
> too dangerous if the script generator throws an error on the next set
> of commands (a risk I do not want to take).
Um.... changing directory *is* the way to solve this. Really.
What you can do in a shell script is work in a sub-shell: that way,
even if your zip command goes bananas, you are automatically returned to
your original working directory. To create a sub-shell, just enclose
your commands in (brackets).
(
cd /mount/archive/orders/Sep20/1284343047-Le-ach/ ;
zip -r
/usr/www/d3photography.com/htdocs/images/paidphotos/1284343047-Le-ach.zip=
\
download*
)
Cheers,
Matthew
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