Re: Script does not do what it is told to do

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Subject: Re: Script does not do what it is told to do
From: deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 03:45:45 +0200
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Ken Heard wrote:

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> On 2019-10-24 7:12 p.m., Anuradha Weeraman wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 06:37:08PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
>>> tar -czf /media/fde/backups/kbrowsers.tgz  --exclude-caches \ -
>>> --wildcards -T docs/tarlists/kbrowsers.lst
>> 
>> Try removing the single '-' at the beginning of the second line...
> 
> In this instance it does not matter whether that '-' is there or not.
>  Pulling that line out of the script and running it independently
> works both with and without it.
> 


In the original post I did not see any dash screenshot attached

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