Elias Persson wrote:
On 2014-05-28 15:35, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Elias Persson wrote:
On 2014-05-25 12:08, Paolo De Michele wrote:> !/bin/bash
<snip> >>> tar cfz `date +%F`_$NAME.tar.gz web$NR/ <snip> >> > Dumb question: why not <snip> > tar -czf /backup/www/test/`date +%F`_$NAME.tar.gz web$NR/
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Why long?
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With long options one can't stick something that takes an argument in the middle of a bunch of others (which was the error I thought was present here, and would have been the case if your example had the options in the same order). It's also more readily apparent what the options do, though that's not much of an issue for common things like tar or rm. I for one can never recall if it's -c or -C that's --reuse-message for git commit.
<shrug> Everybody I know knows the short flags.
However, the point I made in the code snippet was, why copy it to a temp directory, then tar and compress it, then copy it to another directory, then remove the copy in the temp directory, rather than just tar and compress it directly to the target directory? I *did* give the full path the the target, preceding the final filename.
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