Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] regular expressions in scripts

Hi,

Thx, it works!

I can now create a backup (in YYYYmmdd.tar.gz format) of any directory
by
	"bu SOURCE DEST"
If the DEST directory doesn't exist it will be created, if a file with
that name already exist the backup will be created as YYYYmmdd-x.tar.gz
where x is an increasing number up to 10.

I still have to edit the script, make it look a bit better and add a
warning after the last backup, possibly asking the user to "go for
another 10 attempts" or something, but I'm very happy already!

Amazing, in exactly 1 week I've gone from not knowing how to start
writing a script to a fully functional backup script!

Thanks again for all the help! If you want I can send you the script
after I've made some more changes.

Regards,

On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 00:01, William Shotts wrote:
> You were close in your example above.  Try ${2%/}

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