[CentOS] bash script reading directory with while and do

Alberto Varesio alberto.varesio at gmail.com
Mon May 26 09:12:57 UTC 2014


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
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