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   Message 106,492 of 107,822   
   bad sector to bad sector   
   Re: pushing my bash luck   
   20 Sep 24 06:46:56   
   
   From: forgetski@_INVALID.net   
      
   On 9/19/24 16:00, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 9/19/24 08:18, 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?   
   >   
   > thanks everyone, I really need to restart this in gnu.bash where I think   
   > it belongs   
      
   THAT was a waste of time gnu.bash is dead   
      
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