04-19-2013
From my understanding ( non anglophone world...), you are not far from succeeding...
But from a) to b) I dont understand "and exit" at the end of a) but as mentionned I may be wrong in understanding, but in my logic to process an existing file, the prerequisite is to have a backup directory and so after check of existence and creation if non existent you continue (and so no else/elif ...) for you would end with not processing a existing file because you had no backup directory...
c) crazy guys like sysadms like to keep files with their timestamp so we would cp with the according arguments...even more we would use the date as a suffix so the file would not be overwritten by mistake, and it would be more in the "spirit" of having backups in such way you could have in your log file e.g. a long with long listing of the new file created...
d) I see no log file created...
e) what comforts me in my understang here is this task, if you were to copy the file "as it is", here you would only have one file with just the timestamp changing (well ok and size...)
Do you agree?
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debconf-mergetemplate [options] [templates.ll ...] templates
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