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Script for compressing files with gzip within the terminal with date
Wednesday, 14 de September del 2005
by maguilar
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This is a simple bash script to compress in tar.gz (gzip) format a file or folder appending date to file name.
Save this file as gzip.sh and give it execution permissions. From terminal i could be: chmod 755 gzip.sh
This script does the following:
- Checks if you passed exactly 2 arguments
- Compresses your source
- Adds the date on the resulting filename
- Optionally changes permissions of your filename (uncomment line chown and put the desired user:group)
Script:
#!/bin/bash
# Albert Lombarte
#
if [ $# != 2 ]
# There must be two arguments
then
echo "--USAGE: $0 source target"
exit 1
fi
FILENAME=`date "+%Y-%b-%d_$2"`
WHAT=$1
#======================================
echo "-- STARTED compression of $WHAT into $FILENAME"
#Use 'sudo' command before commands if needed
tar -c --gzip -f $FILENAME $WHAT
#chown alombarte:bckgroup $FILENAME
echo "-- FINISHED $WHAT"
echo ""
exit 1
or the same with less stuff...
#!/bin/bash
# Albert Lombarte
if [ $# != 2 ]
then
echo "--USAGE: $0 source target"
exit 1
fi
tar -c --gzip -f $1 $2
This example ...will result in 03-Aug-2005_alombarte.tar.gz
./gzip.sh /home/alombarte alombarte.tar.gz
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