On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:56:49 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
Your second question seems to have been addressed, so here's something for your first question... > 1) I have a backup job that 'tar's a lot of files and currently I > redirect all output of the job to a log. Tar unfortunately lists all > directories that it goes through, even if nothing is 'tar'ed in those > directories. So my logfile contains all my directories. I want to > filter out all lines in my tar-log that ends with slash ("/") since > those are directories. I want to sort of do an inverse grep on the > last character when tarring. Like: tar -cvf myback.tar |grep -v "all > lines that end with slash" > log.txt. All files that are backed up > contain the whole directory path (that's how I want it) - so I can't > simply do a reverse grep for the slash-char. Maybe you could do > something with awk? I'm a total rookie with awk, so I'm lost there... Try tar -cvf myback.tar | grep -v '/$' The $ in the grep pattern indicates "end of line". -Chris _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"