thanks for your help guys. I ran into a couple of good bash scripting tutorials too, which also helped. it seems to be working for the most part, but is a little buggy. for example, i set up tar to only backup files which havent changed since the last full backup. this seems to work for some files, however tar seems to backup everything in /var/www/ everytime whether its contents have changed or not. can anyone think of an explanation? the revised (working) script is attached if anyone is interested. jason jason@pepas.com jason.pepas.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Morgan Terry" <mterry@acsbps.com> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:11 PM Subject: Re: syntax error in backup script > Jason Pepas wrote: > > > > i am brewing up a backup script, but i am running into an error which > > has me baffled. > > > > i try to run the script and get a syntax error which look something like > > this: > > > > syntax error near unexpected token 'elif' > > > > this is the line in question: > > > > elif [ ! -f "/backup/current/*fullbackup.tar.gz" ] > > > > here is the complete file (sorry, the formatting is mangled (no > > indetions, etc)): > > > [...] > > if [ `date +%A` = "Sunday" && ! -f "/backup/$directoryname" ] then > > > > # if it is sunday and you havent yet done a full backup, do so > > > > fullbackup > > > > elif [ ! -f "/backup/current/*fullbackup.tar.gz" ] > [...] > > You need a semicolon after the closing bracket. > From man sh: > if list; then list; [ elif list; then list; ] ... [ else > list; ] fi > The if list is executed. If its exit status is > zero, the then list is executed. Otherwise, each > elif list is executed in turn, and if its exit sta > tus is zero, the corresponding then list is exe > cuted and the command completes. Otherwise, the > else list is executed, if present. The exit status > is the exit status of the last command executed, or > zero if no condition tested true. > > This would change > if [ `date +%A` = "Sunday" && ! -f "/backup/$directoryname" ] then > into > if [ `date +%A` = "Sunday" && ! -f "/backup/$directoryname" ]; then > ^ > > Do the same for the elif part. > > HTH > > > jason > > > > jason.pepas.com > > -- > Morgan Terry > mterry@acsbps.com > > It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving > the problem to a different part of the overall network > architecture) than it is to solve it. --RFC 1925 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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