On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:15:31PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > I have a shell script on one debian system here to back up certain > portions of the filesystem. It simply tars up the directories and > moves the tar file to a samba share which is backed up by some already > in-place windows software. > > The problem is that mv is too noisy : > mv: failed to preserve ownership for > `/mnt/red1/Builds/cvsbackup/CVS-Backup-2004-01-21.tar.gz': Operation not permitted > > This is a problem because I then become conditioned to ignore emails > from cron assuming they only contain this non-problem. However, > sometimes there is a real problem and I need to know about it. > Therefore, I want this particular error message to not be reported, > however I want other errors (for example No space left on device) to > go to stderr. When this script is run, stdout is sent to a log file > and stderr (if any) is sent to me via mail. > > Any suggestions?
Well, AFAIK mv never prints anything on stdout, so perhaps: mv from-name to-name 2>&1 | grep -v 'failed to preserve ownership' 1>&2 -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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