On 2019-10-26 at 21:33, Ken Heard wrote: > The tar scripts now look like this. > ------------------------------------------------------- > #!/bin/bash > # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. > echo here > tar -cpzf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches > --wildcards -T docs/tarlists/kbrowsers.lst > ------------------------------------------------------- > This one exceptionally has 'echo here" above the tar command at the > suggestion of Kushal Kumeran.
Where is this script located (full path and filename)? If I'm reading things right, you also might want to either put the 'cd /home/ken' line back (no need for the other cd), or use the full path to kbrowsers.lst instead of a relative path; otherwise this won't work right if you run it from any directory which doesn't have that relative path under it. (If kbrowsers.lst has relative paths in it, this might not work correctly from another location without the cd anyway, even if you do use a full path on the command line. I don't have experience with that tar feature myself.) > Also at his request I ran the following two commands: > 'which tarkbrowsers' which returned '/home/ken/bin/tarkbrowsers', and > 'cat $(which tarkbrowsers)' which returned > ------------------------------------------------------- > # Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla. > CURPWD=$PWD > cd /home/ken > tar -czf /media/ssda/backups/kbrowsers.tgz --exclude-caches > --wildcards -T docs/tarlists/kbrowsers.lst > cd $CURPWD > ------------------------------------------------------- > As this return includes the change of directories commands it is clear > that somewhere there is a series of extraneous scripts but the > software is being coy about telling me where they are. Eh? No, it isn't. It already told you clearly that this latter script is '/home/ken/bin/tarkbrowsers'. Your mail doesn't (seem to?) give us enough information for us to identify where the former of the two given scripts is, but presumably you know where to find that one, since you were able to give its contents here. If you don't want to run this latter version of the script, either move it out of its current directory (which is apparently in your PATH), or replace it with the version you do want to run. (I'm presuming that the newline between '--exclude-caches' and '--wildcards' in each script is an artifact of the mail process, and not present in the actual on-disk script. If it *is* present there, then these are both going to break and not do what you expect.) -- The Wanderer may regret sending this, if recent history is any guide The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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