Hi, I usually use below script to backup every directory, which are under SOURCE DIRECTORY, in a tar.gz format and store them in my backup directory.
--------------------------------------- BACKUP_DIRECTORY=<Your backup directory> SOURCE_DIRECTORY=<Your source directory> cd $SOURCE_DIRECTORY for i in * ; do tar cvfz "$BACKUP_DIRECTORY/$i.tgz" $i ;done ---------------------------------------- Hope this helps. Cheers, Carlo Feliciano N. Aureus Information and Communication Technology Center Ateneo de Naga University 4400 Naga City Philippines (+63 54) 4726810 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Buehler Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: backup script RedHat Linux 7.3 I am trying to create a backup script (/bin/sh type) that would read the directories and create a seperate backup file for each directory. I can easily get the directories into a text file with "ls -d *". How can I run through that script one line at a time putting the contents of the line into a variable, then do something with it? foreach line in file{ $variable="line contents" run some commands that need $variable contents } Thank You in advance for any help. Steve -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the MailScanner at ow5, and is believed to be clean. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
