On 26 May 2014 @09:12 zulu, Alberto Varesio wrote: > you are overwriting the PATH env variable. > change PATH to CLIPATH and all will work I don't understand, too... do you mean the script should read !/bin/bash while read line; do read NR CLIPATH NAME<<<$(IFS=" "; echo $line) cd /var/www/clients/ cp -R $CLIPATH /backup/temp/www/ cd /backup/temp/www/ tar cfz `date +%F`_$NAME.tar.gz web$NR/ mv *.tar.gz /backup/www/test/ rm -rf /backup/temp/www/* done < sites.txt instead? /i.e./ replace **all** instances of "PATH" with "CLIPATH" ?