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|    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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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