Hi you are overwriting the PATH env variable. change PATH to CLIPATH and all will work On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Paolo De Michele <paolo at paolodemichele.it>wrote: > hi everyone, > > I'm searching to do a functionally bash script for copy many file inside > in a directory > the scenario is: > > root path= /var/www/clients/ > inside of this there are many subdirectories with this name: client1 to > x (depends of the customer) > it happens that a customer not renew the contract and I would stopping > to do a backup directory for him. > > this operation should be versatile and very easy > so, I don't understand the error in this script. look below: > > !/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 > > anyone can help me, please? > thanks in advance > > regards > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alberto 'JCN-9000' Varesio *IT Administrator* Mobile: +39 393 101 8844 LI: http://www.linkedin.com/in/albertovaresio