[solved] Need Help with bash function

orphius1970 · 2010-09-05 14:54:19

I would like to have a bash function that lets me create tar.xz archives. I have the following in my bash now:

mktar() { tar cf  "${1%%/}.tar"     "${1%%/}/"; }
mktgz() { tar czf "${1%%/}.tar.gz"  "${1%%/}/"; }
mktbz() { tar cjf "${1%%/}.tar.bz2" "${1%%/}/"; }

Any advice would be appreciated.

Last edited by orphius1970 (2010-09-06 11:10:39)

wonder · 2010-09-05 14:55:35

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Wintervenom · 2010-09-05 14:58:34

archive () {
  FILE=$1
  shift
  case $FILE in
    *.tar.bz2) tar -cjf $FILE $* ;;
    *.tar.gz) tar -czf $FILE $* ;;
    *.tar.lzma) tar --lzma -cf $FILE $* ;;
    *.tar.xz) tar --xz -cf $FILE $* ;;
    *.tgz) tar -czf $FILE $* ;;
    *.zip) zip $FILE $* ;;
    *.rar) rar $FILE $* ;;
  esac
}

orphius1970 · 2010-09-05 15:10:49

wintervenom, how do I use that function, an example please

fsckd · 2010-09-05 19:17:48

orphius1970 should learn some shell scripting.

$FILE is obviously the archive name and is $1 the first argument.
$* would be the rest of the arguments (only so after the shift command.

So, archive archive_name list of files to be archived.

Example: archive stuff.tar.gz stuff/

orphius1970 · 2010-09-06 11:10:23

thank you. now I understand.

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[solved] Need Help with bash function

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