script problem
Jerry Queirolo
jerry at queirolo.com
Thu Dec 13 18:56:34 UTC 2007
> I have a backup script that I wrote. In it I have a variable that
> has listings of directories to back up. Because of some of the sizes of
> the
> directories, and for other reasons, they now want me to break them where I
> back them up into multiple files with the name of the directory instead of
> all in one file. It would be simple except that I can't find how to get
> just the final directory name for each directory.
>
> Example:
> DIRSTOBACKUP= "/usr/local/bin
> /etc
> /home/steve
> /usr/local/src"
If you just want your results to end up as bin.tar.gz, etc.tar.gz,
steve.tar.gz etc for your example below, can't you just use basename ?
-jq
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