Originally posted by: chauhan_vin1

Hi,

I have a requirement to tar and then gzip a all the files under a certain directory starting with System*.

These files needs to be put into a different directory ( Directory name should be timestamp).

I am writing the below shell script but I am not getting the zipped file created under a directory , instead I am getting a file copied with the directory name as the name of the file.

I think I am missing some thing due to which its not taking the directory name :

Please see my script below :

#!/bin/sh

CUR_DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`

CUR_TIME=`date +%H%M`

mkdir "$CUR_DATE"-"$CUR_TIME"

tar -cvf MDA_WPS_SysOutLogs.tar

gzip MDA_WPS_SysOutLogs.tar

cp MDA_WPS_SysOutLogs.tar.gz /wpsdev01/MDA/DevLogs/"$CUR_DATE"-"$CUR_TIME"/

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I want to get the same file MDA_WPS_SysOutLogs.tar.gz to be copied to /wpsdev01/MDA/DevLogs/20081020-1705/ directory , where '20081020-1705' is the Date-timestamp directory created by my script.

but what I am getting is a gz file created under /wpsdev01/MDA/DevLogs/ with the mane as 20081020-1705

Please help me with this :-

Thanks,
Vineet

Originally posted by: eventius

Your tar command is missing arguments; you haven't given the names of any files to be tarred. From your discussion, perhaps somethings like:

tar -cvf MDA_WPS_SysOutLogs.tar System*

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Please check your script line :

mkdir "$CUR_DATE"-"$CUR_TIME"

This may not be creating dir. You might need to change it to :

mkdir "$CUR_DATE-$CUR_TIME"

Thanks
Bharat Bhushan
bharatbh@us.ibm.com