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shell scripting question

  • 04-12-2002 5:30pm
    #1
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭


    just wondering how to back up every file in my home directory. What i mean _exactly_ is to add a .bak extension to each file using bash scripting. I can't for the life of me figure this one out. i can do it to a file one by one but i want to do it to every file at once.

    Thanks in advance!@#


Comments

  • #2
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    I don't do much bash scripting, but a cursory examination of the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide gives me something like this:
    #!/bin/sh
for i in ~/*
do
        if [ -f "$i" ]
        then
                cp $i $i.bak
        fi
done
exit 0
    adam


  • #3
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    Thanks adam!


  • #4
    Catch_22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭Catch_22


    just to be pedantic your better of using ~/.* instead of ~/* so that you get all the .files (i.e. config files) which ~/* wont match.

    Also if you want to get the subdirectories too do:

    #!/bin/sh
    for file in `find ~ -type f`; do
    cp $file $file.bak
    done

    c22


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