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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Omitting some filenames for commands to process Post 302073928 by milhan on Thursday 18th of May 2006 03:48:17 PM
Old 05-18-2006
Power Omitting some filenames for commands to process
hello all,

this topic might have been discussed but I couldn't find it with searching.

I am trying to do a for command that will dos2unix files one by one and save it under directory called backup (backup is in the same directory with other files). When I do:

Code:
for i in *
do
  dos2unix $i backup/"$i"
done

this will try to copy/dos2unix the backup directory itself too. Since it can't do it, it stops copying files. I know there is a way to specify in unix; like: everything but not something. In the above command I should be able to say

Code:
for i in * but not backup 
do
   cp files under backup
done

so that It will skip when encountered to backup directory file.

I hope I made sense...
 

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backup-manager-purge

BACKUP-MANAGER-PURGE(8) 				       backup-manager-purge					   BACKUP-MANAGER-PURGE(8)

NAME

       backup-manager-purge - backup-manager's wrapper for outdating files

SYNOPSIS

       backup-manager-purge [TTL] <options>

DESCRIPTION

       backup-manager-purge is the only authorized entity that can say if an archive should be purged or not. Any tasks used by backup-manager may
       have to know if an archive is deprecated (eg: the purging phase of an upload method). This tool is here to fulfill that need.

       Given a time to live (TTL) and a list of archives, backup-manager-purge will return another list of archives, corresponding to the ones
       that are outdated by the TTL.

REQUIRED ARGS

       --ttl=time-to-live
	   Specify the time to live (in days) for the archives. Any archive that is older than ttl days will be outdated.

OPTIONAL ARGS

       --files-from=file
	   A file containing a list of archives to parse, one archive per line.  If this option is not used, STDIN will be used for catching the
	   files to parse.

RETURN

       backup-manager-purge will return the list of outdated files on STDOUT, one file per line.

ERROR CODES

       If an error occurs, it will print the error message on stderr and will exit with an error code greater than 0.

       Here are the possible error codes:

       bad command line (wrong arguments) : 10
       internal error (should be reported as a bug) : 20

SEE ALSO

       backup-manager(8) backup-manager-upload(8)

AUTHORS

       Concept and design by Alexis Sukrieh and Jan Metzger.

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