[ale] backup script part II
Jay Loden
jloden at toughguy.net
Fri Mar 18 12:28:22 EST 2005
I'm still working on a backup script in Bash, and everything was set up
perfectly, but for structural reasons I have to change what gets backed up.
(just when you think you've got it...)
What I need is to backup only the last ten tar.bz2 files in the directory.
Can someone demonstrate how you do a for loop that would determine the ten
most recent files and then tar only those ten into one big tar file?
I appreciate the help with this...Bash scripting is still very confusing for
me and my only alternative is to make it a Perl script. I'm a Python
programmer and don't know any Perl, so neither is a great option. I'd love
to write it in Python but the place I'm working doesn't want to have anything
around that isn't in Perl for support reasons.
-Jay
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