Wildcard Question
Posted by Greedisgood, 07-06-2007, 08:47 AM Hi, I was wondering if an expert could confirm if this line would work. As it seems the server is taking that * as a character, not as a wildcard. What would be the proper character for a wildcard symbol? Thanks
Posted by foobic, 07-06-2007, 10:03 AM I don't think you can give tar multiple input files like that, but I guess you could use the --append function in a loop. A simpler option would be to avoid using $date in the filenames - instead create a directory called $date, dump each database in it as dbname.sql and then tar/gzip the directory.
Posted by Linuxsurgeon, 07-06-2007, 10:34 AM You can use for this.
Posted by mr_brain, 07-07-2007, 10:04 AM I think it ist better to use the full path: tar -zcvf sqldata.$date.tgz /DIRECTORY/*.sql
Posted by anatolijd, 07-07-2007, 10:29 AM tar works perfectly, but $date is not defined (rather is ok)
Posted by Linuxsurgeon, 07-07-2007, 10:47 AM Have you tried
Posted by Greedisgood, 07-18-2007, 02:13 AM Weird, this still isn't working for me. I've done a mysql dump on one of my databases, and placed the .sql file inside /sqldata This is what I keep getting: Could somebody help me?
Posted by Patrick, 07-18-2007, 02:20 AM I just tested that and it worked fine... can you confirm that the .sql file is present in that directory?