On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:09:47 -0500
Edmond Baroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:38:01 -0500
> Tom Parquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I've been looking through some basic shell books, and some online 
> > resources, that I have but I'm not finding the answer.
> > Or maybe I just don't recognize the answer when I see it...
> > 
> > I'm building a schell script that will backup my systems to CD-ROM.  Or 
> > DVD when I can talk my wife into a burner.  :-)
> > 
> > I'm stuck on two items:
> > 1) Since my tar files CAN exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM, I want to 
> > check in the script if I have to call split.
> > The closest I can come to determining the size of the output file from 
> > tar (e.g.ad0s1a.tgz) is: file_size=`du -k /tmp/ad0s1a.tgz`.
> > The problem I have is, while this gives me the result in number of K 
> > blocks, it also returns the file name and directory.  I don't know how 
> > to get JUST the number of K blocks so I can do a numeric compare against 
> > 700m.
> file_size=`du -k /tmp/ad0s1a.tgz|awk '{print $1}'`
> num_compare=`expr 700000 - $file_size`
> > 
> > 2) I have a function written that will tar/gzip the filesystem then 
> > split it into pieces that will be turned into .iso files that will be 
> > fed to burncd.  I would like to capture the output of commands (e.g. ls 
> > -l /tmp/ad0s1a.*) into a "table" that I can examine to determine what 
> > was output by the split command so I know what mkisofs commands, and how 
> > many, I have to build/execute.  Example: If I end up with a 
> > ad0s1a.tgz.aa, ab, and ac from split, I know I have to do mkisofs' for 3 
> > files.
> I don't know what your split command returns but I beleive u can put that in a loop.
> > 
> >  I also hope to use the same technique for determining what filesystems 
> > I have to backup in the first place.  e.g. If I do a df command I want 
> > to pull out the filesystem name and what mountpoint it is on.  The 
> > mountpoint is important to me because I do not want to back up some 
> > filesystems.  e.g. I do not want to backup /tmp.
> I think that all u're missing here is the "awk" command. 
> man awk ;)
> 
 fs=`df|awk '{print $6}'|grep -vi mounted`
 for i in $fs
 do
 if [ $i = "/" ]
 then
         backup_script args
 elseif [ $i = "/etc" ]
         backup_script args
u dont need this else I forgot to remove it in this example :)
> else

 elseif [ $i = "/tmp" ]
         echo "I'm not backing up /tmp !"
 else
        do something
 fi
 done
> > 
> > TIA.
> > Cheers...
> hope this helps.
> 
> Ed.
> 
> > 
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