On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <eu...@timbira.com> wrote: > On 21-09-2011 20:02, Greg Smith wrote: >> >> Attached version fixes the late night brain fade errors. I think the right >> thing to do next is to package this up into a doc update that corrects the >> errors in that section too; just clean the whole thing up while I'm poking >> at >> it. I'll submit that over to the hackers list so that everyone can take a >> shot >> at correcting my shell code.
First, a +1 on the impetus for this script. Few more suggestions/nitpicks: 1.) IMO it's more logical to put the test for whether the $ARCHIVE directory exists before the test whether ${ARCHIVE}/${FILE} exists. 2.) I think the error code reporting here is not sound: cp ${FULLPATH} ${ARCHIVE}/${FILE} if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then echo $0 Archive copy of ${FILE} failed with error $? >&2 at least on my OS X machine, that echo produces a message like "./local_backup_script.sh Archive copy of failed with error 0", I guess since $? gets reset to 0 after that if-statement. You can use a temporary variable like $ERRCODE=$? to get around this. Josh -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs