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