Unix Shell - Re: request: script for file backup

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Re: request: script for file backup

William Park

2005-03-17, 5:55 pm

Mark P <not@my.real.email> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a simple script that I can invoke on one or more files
> in a directory which will copy them to some set aside backup directory
> and, if the file already exists in that backup directory, rename the
> existing copy by appending some sort of version number to its file name.
> The copying part I can figure out, but the text processing for file
> renaming is outside my range of knowledge. Any help?

man cp (-b -S -V options)

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