Script does not do what it is told to do

[Ken Heard <ken@heard.name>]

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Whenever I run this script -- or several others like it

#!/bin/bash
# Script to back up all browser files in directory /home/ken/mozilla.
STARTDIR=$PWD
cd /home/ken
tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz  --exclude-caches \
- --wildcards -T docs/tarlists/kbrowsers.lst
cd "$STARTDIR"

it returns the following:

ken@Turing:~$ tarkbrowsers
tar (child): /media/ssda/backups/kbrowsers.tgz: Cannot open: No such
file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /media/ssda/backups/kbrowsers.tgz: Cannot write: Broken pipe
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

It is trying to save the tarball to a different portable storage
device, ssda, which had failed and consequently is no longer in
/etc/fstab.  How could such a thing happen?

However, if I pull the line with the tar command out of the script and
running it independently it does what it is told.  If there is
something wrong with the script I can't find it.

I also tried the script with the second line reading STARTDIR="$PWD";
but that change made no difference, the result was the same.

Help please!

Regards, Ken


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