Thread: Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] regular expressions in scripts
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From: Mertens B. <bra...@li...> - 2002-08-10 08:36:22
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Hi, Thx, it works! I can now create a backup (in YYYYmmdd.tar.gz format) of any directory by "bu SOURCE DEST" If the DEST directory doesn't exist it will be created, if a file with that name already exist the backup will be created as YYYYmmdd-x.tar.gz where x is an increasing number up to 10. I still have to edit the script, make it look a bit better and add a warning after the last backup, possibly asking the user to "go for another 10 attempts" or something, but I'm very happy already! Amazing, in exactly 1 week I've gone from not knowing how to start writing a script to a fully functional backup script! Thanks again for all the help! If you want I can send you the script after I've made some more changes. Regards, On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 00:01, William Shotts wrote: > You were close in your example above. Try ${2%/} -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <bra...@li...> # # Registered [Red Hat] Linux User # 249103 since Octobre 2000 # # http://linux.be | http://www.redhat.com | http://counter.li.org # # Red Hat Linux 7.3 KDE 3.0.0-10 kernel 2.4.18-3 i686 128MB RAM # |