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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with a rotate log script Post 302697269 by RudiC on Thursday 6th of September 2012 10:44:23 AM
Old 09-06-2012
what about using - if available on your system - the backup control option of cp:
Code:
cp --backup=numbered file file.bck

 

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