Backup Package: backup p7 fails with error message "/bin/bash:: Too many arguments"

• Article Type: General
• Product: Primo

Problem Symptoms:
-- Start backup type p7 (Primo publishing data) by entering the following command as UNIX user root:

# /exlibris/backup/scripts/exec_backup_main p7


-- The backup fails and the following error message appears in the log file prm_pub_p7_Detail_<date>_

Cause:
Line 8 of the script primo_pub in the Backup Package includes the following obvious mistake:


1 #!/bin/csh -f
2 echo ".................................................."
3 echo "Begin $BKP_TYPE backup of $ORACLE_SID at `date`"
4 echo ".................................................."
5 set files_no_slash = `echo $PRM_PUB | sed 's/^\///'`
6 cd /
7 echo "DOING :tar -cvf -" $files_no_slash " | $GZIPEX | split -b2000m - ${DEVICE}.gz_"
8 /bin/bash: q: command not found
9 if ($status == 0) then
10 setenv STATUS 0
[...]

Resolution:
Remove the following line from the script primo_pub:

/bin/bash: q: command not found