RE: script problem

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Queirolo
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:57 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: script problem

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 ?

Most cases that would work. But if we have a /usr/local/bin and a /bin
directory that we are backing up, then that wouldn't work correctly. So I
now have it changing the "/" into an underscore. So /usr/local/src would be
usr_local_src.tgz

Thank You
Steve

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