Recent content by loqtis

try this perl -p -i -e 's/this/that/g' filename Search and replace the string 'this' with the string 'that' in the file filename. You can also say * or *.html or any valid wildcard expression instead of filename. The s/// command uses regular expressions. If you want to alter the 'this' and...

this is the script im running a very simple script as you can see. #!/bin/sh # Tar backups written by Brent # cd / echo "Tarring up usr/local/apache" /usr/sbin/tar -zpcvf /var/coreosbkup/apache.`date +%Y.%m.%d.at.%H.%M.%S`.tgz /usr/local/apache echo "Tarring up...

try tar -zpcvf whereya-wantfile-saved.tgz path-to-dir-being-tarred example i did something like this on my unix box tar -zpcvf /var/bkup/apache.tgz /usr/local/apache loqtis

Im running a shell script from crontab on a solaris machine that runs a tar backup of certain files on the machine. the script runs great when ran manually ...but when ever i try to run it from cron it creates a emtpy tar file and or doesnt run at all ...anyone have any thougths ??? thank you...