"Miguel G." wrote:

Hi all!

could anyone help me with a very simple script? (it simply doesn't work the variables stuff) and also how can I modify this (tar) to retrive only files which I might get as new from $(find ...)

set $FN = etc-$(date +%Y-%m-%d) tar -cf $FN.tar /etc/ gzip $FN.tar

THANKS A LOT!!!!!

Try... et FN = etc-$(date +%Y-%m-%d) tar -cf $FN.tar /etc/ gzip $FN.tar Note that I removed the $ from the first line. I haven't tested the whole thing so there might be other problems. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net

Here is a script I use: #!/bin/sh # do tar with the following options: # c - create, v - verbose f - filename: echo Doing full backup of Data file system... now=`date` title="full backup of /data, from $now" logfile="logs/`date "+%y%m%d"`.data.full.log" name="`date "+%y%m%d"`.data.tar" echo > $logfile echo >> $logfile echo >> $logfile echo >> $logfile tail -f $logfile & tar -cvf -\ /data \ 2>> $logfile |\ dd obs=4000k 2>>$logfile >/opt/data_backup/$name gzip /opt/data_backup/$name echo $now > dates/date.backup.data echo Ready. echo Transcript written to $logfile . This is just my 2 cents worth. "Miguel G." wrote:

Hi all!

could anyone help me with a very simple script? (it simply doesn't work the variables stuff) and also how can I modify this (tar) to retrive only files which I might get as new from $(find ...)

set $FN = etc-$(date +%Y-%m-%d) tar -cf $FN.tar /etc/ gzip $FN.tar

THANKS A LOT!!!!!

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