On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:16 PM, John Jason Jordan<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm sure this is trivial for most people here, but man bash is massive
> and I can't figure it out.
>
> In an effort to bend rdiff-backup to my will I have created the
> following script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> sudo rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist /home/jjj/rdiff_excludes.txt / 
> /media/disk2/Full_system_backup > /home/jjj/rdiff-errors.txt
Change to this
sudo rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist
/home/jjj/rdiff_excludes.txt / /media/disk2/Full_system_backup &>
/home/jjj/rdiff-errors.txt

> sudo rdiff-backup --list-increment-sizes /media/disk2/Full_system_backup > 
> /home/jjj/rdiff-stats.txt
>
>

It is a bash shortcut that I found when I was doing long makes that I
had to analyze.
This works on the command line also.  It does not work from things
like cron which don't use a
shell to process the file.
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