[CentOS] bash script reading directory with while and do

Elias Persson delreich at takeit.se
Wed May 28 14:58:37 UTC 2014


On 2014-05-28 15:40, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 07:10 AM, Elias Persson wrote:
>> On 2014-05-25 12:08, Paolo De Michele wrote:> !/bin/bash
>>    >          tar cfz `date +%F`_$NAME.tar.gz web$NR/
>>
>> 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).
>
> Actually it is correct, aside from possible whitespace issues with $NAME.
> It is using an outdated syntax (short options all in a group _without_ a
> leading "-"), but doing it correctly with the needed option argument
> following the set of option letters.
>

I stand corrected. Apparently having the "f" in the middle is not a
problem with the old syntax.




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