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



On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 02:40:00AM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Ken Heard wrote:
> 
> > 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:
> > 
> 
> this is not possible because in the script you tell tar to create archive
> in /media/fde/backups/

Possibly /media/fde is a (broken) symbolic link to /media/ssda?

Besides (but this probably hasn't to do with your failure):
what are you trying to achieve with 'STARTDIR=$PWD' and then
'cd "$STARTDIR"'?

Cheers
-- tomás

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