[plug] Ambiguous redirection error

[Paul Dean]

Hya Richard,

How are you "looking" for you files to be listed in the script?

The way I've done my backup scripts is by using find.
ie `find "$hdata" $mdata" -type f -print | egrep -v "$notmatch" >"$tmpfdst"`

Where hdata="./home/" and mdata="./var/spool/mail" notmatch="files you
don't want to backup in the vars" then redirecting it to a file in var tmpfdst.

Then use tar -z -c "$dst/$bkp" -T "$tmpfdst"

Tar creates and gzips the file and gets file listing from $tmpfdst.

Hope this helps...


On Sat, 11 May 2002, Richard wrote:

> I am currently trying to write a script(s) that will backup certain personal 
> files on a regular basis. My email is one of the things I would like to 
> backup and, using kmail, it resides in a single dir, Mail, in mbox format. I 
> have been trying to work out a command to append all files in the Mail dir to 
> their name sake in a separate backup dir, which would then be re-archived. I 
> have been trying to redirect the output of the cat command to the backup 
> files and using the * to perform the action on all files in the dir, but I 
> keep getting the error message 'ambiguous redirection'. I could explicitly 
> name all of my mail files/folders in the script but would like to avoid 
> having to update the script every time a new folder is added in kmail. Could 
> anyone suggest a command-line string that would have the desired effect? Or a 
> better way of regularly archiving my mail (if I'm in danger of re-inventing 
> the wheel :) Thanks.
> 
> Richard
> 

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