shell scripting question

scojones

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!@#

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

scojones

Thanks adam!

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