Okay it was a DOS carriage return. I did a dos2unix filename.sh and all is
well!!
Thanks!
Keith Smith
--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Mark Stoecker wrote:
From: Mark Stoecker
Subject: Re: Running Tar from a Shell Script.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
Dat
"tar: Removing leading `/' from member names" is because you are not
running the tar command from within the directory you are archiving.
Use the -C switch to specify the directory you want to run tar from.
tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz -C /work/dev/ *
That will switch to th
That's on the horizon. Today I need to get things tar'ed.
Keith Smith
--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Alex Dean wrote:
From: Alex Dean
Subject: Re: Running Tar from a Shell Script.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 1:59 PM
O
> If I run "tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/"
> from the command line, less the quotes, it runs just fine with the
> exception of the one message that says "tar: Removing leading `/' from
> member names", which I am not sure exactly what that means.
If filenames are store
On 07/27/2010 01:54 PM, keith smith wrote:
> If I create a shell script with two lines, as follows:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> /bin/tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/
>
>
> I get the following output:
>
> : command not founde 2:
> /bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member n
On Jul 27, 2010, at 3:54 PM, keith smith wrote:
Hi,
If I run "tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/
dev/" from the command line, less the quotes, it runs just fine with
the exception of the one message that says "tar: Removing leading
`/' from member names", which I am
Hi,
If I run "tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/" from the
command line, less the quotes, it runs just fine with the exception of the one
message that says "tar: Removing leading `/' from member names", which I am not
sure exactly what that means.
If I create a shell
