[ale] backup script part II

[Yu, Jerry]

ls -1tr *.tar.bz2 | tail -10 > /tmp/latest10.list (note, it is number one, not letter 'l'  in the ls arguments)
tar cf  blah.tar -T /tmp/latest10.list

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# Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:23 AM
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# 
# 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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