Backup script

[bernd pinter]

i have the same problem half a year ago: you need a blank in the first 
row of the script!

use:
#! /bin/bash

that should work...

bernd

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Chris Norman wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've got that, the only thing, when I run the script first hand, I get:
>>
>> : Bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>>
>> At the top, I have:
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> I tried:
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> But that got the same results. The permission bits are:
>>
>> -rwxr--r-- root root
>>
>> I'm running it as root.
>>
>> No probs, I have fixed that, just re-wrote it, and it seemed to work.
> 
> You had probably created the script on a Windows box, which puts 
> carriage return characters at the end of each line that confuse shells 
> trying to interpret them.
> 
>  > I have
>> another problem now though:
>>
>> Tar says it can't "stat" ls, says there's no such file or directory.
>>
>> here's the script:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> cd /var/ftp/backup;
>>
>> for file in ls
>> do {
>> tar cf /home/backup/$file.tar.tar $file/
>> } done
>>
>>
>> What is the problem?
> 
> $file has only one value in this loop, "ls".
> What you want is to capture the output of "ls" and use that:
> 
>   for file in `ls`
> 
> or in bash (clearer)
> 
>   for file in $(ls)
> 
> or (better still, you don't need ls at all)
> 
>   for file in *
> 
> P.S. Please don't top-post on this mailing list.
> 
> Paul.
>