Please help in making archive for directories with according to same name

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello folks,

i have folder in that directory /var/qmail/Mail2DB/ from 000,001,002,003 onwards to 198. it means i have total 199 directories start from 000 thru 198. i have another directory /misc, i want to compress each folder /var/qmail/Mail2DB/000 and make a tar file like 000.tar, 0001.tar .... 198.tar. in /misc directory. can anyone suggest please. Between i want to use sleep for 10 second after each directory compress because i am using older version of linux so thats why, because after sometime it give me broken pipe error. i am waiting for suggestion please.

Thanks,
Bash

2

Pseudo-codeish:

change into /var/qmail/Mail2DB
for each folder here
    tar & compress the folder into a file in /misc
    sleep for 10 seconds

Depending on how much error checking you need/want it's between 5 and n lines of code.

3

Hi.

What gives you a "broken pipe" error? You didn't show any code.

With no error checking whatsoever...

cd /var/qmail/Mail2DB
ls -d [0-9][0-9][0-9] | xargs -I{} tar cvf /misc/{}.tar {}
gzip /misc/*.tar

(change all the [][][] stuff to just * if that's all you have there)

4

Hello Thanks for your suggestion, but i need to ignore 009 and 028 during this tar, how i can do that and i also want to give sleep of 10 second after every tar. is it possible i can start from 011 to 199, because this range thing will also resolve my issue alot.

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That's funny because when you counted from 000 to 198 and concluded that was 199 things, I was agreeing with you! I just never thought to remove two random directories :wink:

I've never known UNIX (or Linux) to get bored doing stuff and deciding to pull the plug on a pipe, but OK, but I'm not that old.

New plan:

cd /var/qmail/Mail2DB

cat << ! > dont_tar_me.txt # modify as required
009
028
!

ls -d [0-9][0-9][0-9] | grep -vf dont_tar_me.txt | while read LINE; do
  tar cf - "$LINE" | gzip > /misc/"$LINE".tar.gz
  sleep 10
done