tar a directory

Question

#!/bin/bash

current_date=$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")
file="name Backup ($current_date)"
tar -cvzf $file.tgz module8

My output needs to be named "name Backup $current_date"

When I run the script is just names the file "name" not even "name.tgz"

This is what I get for an output

name | 175 kB | 175.0 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%

Backup: No such file or directory

(03-16-2019).tgz: No such file or directory

See Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters? — steeldriver, Mar 17 '19 at 00:52

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 17 '19 at 00:45

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The tar command receives the variable contents as whitespace separated list of arguments. You do not want that, you need to quote them:

tar -cvzf "$file.tgz" module8

answered Mar 17 '19 at 00:45

Hermann

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 17 '19 at 00:46

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Okay I figured out what I was doing wrong... Line 4 needed to be file="name Backup ($current_date).tgz" Line 5 needed to be tar -cvzf "$file" module8

answered Mar 17 '19 at 00:46

Trinity Zamrzla

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tar a directory

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