-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My amateur's attempt at scripting has come to grief. The script in question reads as follows:
#!/bin/sh # Shell script to create a tgz file for the contents of the # /usr/local/bin directory. # Start by creating a variable with the current directory. CURPWD=$PWD # Change directory to /. cd / # Create a variable for the name of the tgz file. ULB="$HOSTNAME"usrlocalbin.tgz # Create the tgz file in the specified directory. tar -czf /media/zd/$ULB usr/local/bin # Return to the original directory. #cd $CURPWD In both Lenny and Squeeze the $HOSTNAME value is BDS; the script consequently created in Lenny the tarball BDSusrlocalbin.tgz located in a Zip750 disk mounted at /media/zd. (Yes, the disk was properly mounted.) In Squeeze however the tarball is created but without the $HOSTNAME added at the beginning of the file name. What I find strange is that in Squeeze each command line in the script run independently in succession achieves the desired result. After doing so running "echo $ULB" returns the assigned value. Eliminating the creation of $ULB and entering "$HOSTNAME"uslocalbin.tgz directly into the tar command in the script also does not produce the desired result. So something must be happening to prevent the tar command from using the $ULB variable. Is there for example something different in Squeeze which does not permit scripts written for Lenny to work in Squeeze? Comment, suggestions, anyone? Regards, Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHwEmAACgkQlNlJzOkJmTe3+ACeMCpj4xbfwjWpGctT4VRJVogL S/AAnAokYGJPHkcKDG0/4m5Zd5D+z04F =vQHK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51f01261.7060...@teksavvy.com
