Date: 23 Jul 2003 02:15:11 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: David.Bear@asu.edu Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: shell script help Message-ID: <1058940911.28333.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20030722230432.J27866@asu.edu>
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On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 02:04, David Bear wrote:
> 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
How about:
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
Works for me.
Joe
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