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That works great, thanks. Would there be away to identify that nothing is in a directory and skip tarring it? Thanks!!

Thanks, for the help, One question, What is basename? I want to pull the name of the directory form the variable $i which is the name of the directory I am taring. Is basename just an added name consisting of anything? Thanks, Phil

Hi I am trying to make the name of every directory unique for the variable name TODAY. Please see my script below. I want the name of the current directory it is compressing and the date like ACD2206__Prod_Rev03_Processed_062606 For the life of me I can not get it to work. Below is my...

Thanks for responding, I am not sure exactly what you are doing with the lines for i in ${PWD}/* do if [ -d $i ] then cd $i /path/to/your/tarscript The for and the if lines are confusing? for i in all the subdirectories ? What is i ? if the directory i ? not sure what this id doing...

Hi, I am running solaris 8, Scripting in the Ksh. New to scripting. I have a script running on files within a directory. Just simple tarring and moving. I specifically cd to that directory. How can I cd to a directory above that and run the script in all the subdirectories, not just that...