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   Message 106,494 of 107,822   
   bad sector to bad sector   
   Re: pushing my bash luck   
   19 Sep 24 16:00:07   
   
   From: forgetski@_INVALID.net   
      
   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   
      
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