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