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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Combination backup/VI script Post 302279394 by cbo0485 on Thursday 22nd of January 2009 04:09:30 PM
Old 01-22-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by pludi
You mean something like
Code:
for file in "$*"
do
    cp ${file} ${file}.`date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S`
done
vi "$*"

Personally, I rather prefer svn (or any other RCS) over the copy-backup method for such things.
Works perfectly.

I might have used the first posters, but the server is pretty consolidated, with different backup directories for different applications, so it would have gotten much more complicated to work all that into it.
 

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