From: forgetski@_INVALID.net   
      
   On 9/19/24 11:01, Chris Elvidge wrote:   
   > 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   
   > }   
      
   thanks, that gives me the date to append which I don't need if doing it   
   manually but gotta have as part of any script.   
      
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