Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:04:32 -0700 From: David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: shell script help Message-ID: <20030722230432.J27866@asu.edu>
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I'm trying to clean up a script that controls my tape better. Among
other things it sets some variable to use later. I've made an error
somewhere and I'm thinking that I'm missing the obvious since I cant
find the error. I want to set command line options for tar. Below
taroptions has what I want. Line 12 echo's the command. When I use
what line echo's to the console tar works. However, something is
happening with line 13 that makes tar mad. It tells me
tar can't open the archive /dev/sa0 /var/log
Please advice -- I'm going blind trying understand this one.
1 #!/bin/sh
2 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
3 backupadmin="iddwb@asu.edu"
4 starttime=`date "+DATE: %Y-%m-%d%nTIME: %H:%M"`
5 wrkdir="/root"
6 tmpfile=${wrkdir}"/cat.tmp"
7 curfile=${wrkdir}"/tapelabel"
8 catalog=${wrkdir}"/level1Tar.cat"
9 datetime=`date "+DATE: %Y-%m-%d%nTIME: %H:%M"`
0 taroptions="--create --verbose --block-size 1 --read-full-blocks --block-compress --gzip --file "
1 tapedev="/dev/sa0"
2 echo "tar "${taroptions}${tapedev}" /var/log "
3 tar ${taroptions}${tapedev}" /var/log "
4 exit
--
David Bear
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