Re: script problem

Steve,

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:56:34 -0600
From: "Steven Buehler" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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.
<snip>

Try this: DON'T hard-code the directories. Create a configuration file, and put them in there. That way, anyone can always expand or shorten the list, without ever touching the code. You could actually do this in perl, btw. For example,
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $bu_dir;

open ( CONF, $ARGV[0] );

while ( $bu_dir = <CONF> ) {
system( "echo \"tar $bu_dir.tar $bu_dir/\"");
}

mark

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