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Bash cannot expand backticks interactively
On RHEL5.2 (bash 2.3.25) I can cd `pwd`/[TAB] and pwd is substituted into my current working directory, using the output of pwd(1).
How can I achieve the same functionality in Ubuntu 9.10 (bash ...
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Backup bash script is not gzipping its tarball
I have a bash script that runs as a cron to backup files on the server.
#!/bin/bash
FILE=/path/to/backup_$(date +%Y%m%d).tar
tar -cf $FILE /backup/this /and/that /and/someotherfiles
gzip $FILE
When ...
