Ruslan Sivak wrote: > Shad L. Lords wrote: >>> I'm trying to back up our svn repositories, and I found a nice >>> little backup command line bzip's the backup and creates the md5 >>> hash all in one: >>> >>> svnadmin dump --deltas /repo |bzip2 |tee dump.bz2 | md5sum >dump.md5 >>> >>> The problem is I need to split the backups, so this doesn't really >>> work. Is there perhaps another way of piping things to allow for >>> splitting of the backups? Currently I'm doing something like this >>> >>> svnadmin dump --deltas /repo |bzip2 |split - -b 64m >>> cat *.bz2* | md5sum >dump.md5 >>> >>> Is there a way to do this all in one step? >> >> What about: >> >> svnadmin dump --deltas /repo | bzip2 | tee >(split -b 64m - >> dump.bz2.) | md5sum > dump.md5 >> >> -Shad >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but even though this works fine from the command line, it doesn't seem to work from my perl script. I get sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `(' sh: -c: line 1: `svnadmin dump --deltas /svn/russ 2>>/backup/russ/2007/12/full.4.log | bzip2 | tee >(split -b 1888m - /backup/russ/2007/12/full.4.bz2.) | md5sum > /backup/russ/2007/12/full.4.md5' Looks like it's running sh instead of bash? Is there a way to change the shell that executes the command? I'm using backticks to execute the command in perl. Russ