From: chris@internal.net   
      
   On 19/09/2024 at 13:18, bad sector wrote:   
   >   
   > I want to devise a shutdown cron script that will make a dated rsync   
   > backup of any directory under a particular path that had been written to   
   > during the session and then shut down.   
   >   
   > The rsync command itself would look something like   
   >   
   > rsync -ahcEWXd /x/trees-planted/ /x/trees-$date (format 2024-09-24-hr-m)   
   >   
   > The part that's over my head is for the script to know what directory   
   > (under /x in this case) had been written to.   
   >   
   > Maybe there's a uti that already does this and I just have to invoke IT   
   > with args in the script?   
   >   
   >   
      
   Try it with a local function to override the built-in command?   
      
   shutdown() {   
   printf -v today '%(%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M)T'   
   # this will put the contents of /x/trees-planted into the directory   
   # /x/trees-2024-09-19_16-00   
   rsync -ahcEWXd /x/trees-planted/ /x/trees-$today && /sbin/shutdown   
   }   
      
      
      
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