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backup a file with SHELL SCRIPT
Name: Justin Date: January 23, 2003 at 12:51:21 Pacific OS: Solaris 8 CPU/Ram: SPARC
Comment:
Hi, I was wondering if anybody knew how to make a shell script that will make a backup of a file example (mv out out.bak) but the next time you run the script i want the original backup file to still be there.
#!/bin/bash # Copy mc2.xml to cmd.cmd and run perl script for out file
echo echo "Your current directory is: " pwd echo echo "Backing up old output file..." cp out out.bak rm -rf out cp ~/xml/mc2.xml ~/xml/html/cmd.cmd echo "Copying MC2 and parsing output..." perl index.cgi cmd.cmd > out echo "Finished making file 'out'"
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I would like to be able to keep the original backup file out.bak and next time I run the script move the newer out file to out.bak1 or somthing along those lines.
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