Re: Automated Backup Script Help (Linux)

On 03/07/12 11:20 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> SCRIPTPATH=$(cd ${0%/*}&&  pwd -P)

thats line 7 by my count.


thats some very strange stuff there.  AFAIK ${0%/*}  means, take $0
which is the name of the invoking command ('sh' in the invocation you
gave), match and remove the results of the pattern  /*

I think you're NOT supposed to invoke this script with `sh scriptname`
but instead invoke it as 'path/to/scriptname' (thereforce, it has to be
chmod +x).  if it was invoked as ./script, then it would cd ., and set
SCRIPTPATH to the full path of .

again, this is a linux shell issue, has nothing to do with postgres,
regardless of the rest of the script.







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