Re: [CentOS] bash script reading directory with while and do

Elias Persson wrote:

On 2014-05-25 12:08, Paolo De Michele wrote:> !/bin/bash

...

while read line; do read NR PATH NAME<<<$(IFS=" "; echo $line)

     cd /var/www/clients/
     cp -R $PATH /backup/temp/www/
     cd /backup/temp/www/

     tar cfz `date +%F`_$NAME.tar.gz web$NR/
     mv *.tar.gz /backup/www/test/
     rm -rf /backup/temp/www/*

done < sites.txt

Dumb question: why not while read line; do read NR PATH NAME<<<$(IFS=" "; echo $line) cd /var/www/clients/ tar -czf /backup/www/test/`date +%F`_$NAME.tar.gz web$NR/ done < sites.txt

A few things:

<snip>

3. Your `tar` stanza is wrong (if it's not obvious to you why that is, now is a good time to make a habit of using long options (e.g. `--gzip`) whenever possible).

Why long? <snip> mark