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Can someone help me create this script(I'm a novice)

I've literally been handed this assessment for my course and the lecturer is of no help at all he's taught us virtually nothing would anyone be able to show me how the following script should look on Linux -

For this assignment you have to write a Linux Shell Script which will allow a user to carry out a selective backup of his/her files.

First of all you need to set up a directory in your user area called Outcome3.(I've already done this part)
Inside directory Outcome 3 use touch to create the following files:

afile, anyfile, anotherfile, afiletest, bfile, bfiletest, cfile, cfiletest (I've done this part also)

Your script will give the user a menu of options in order to assist with the back up. The choices given to the user are Backup all files or Backup selected files.

If user chooses to backup all file then the files should be backed up to a new subdirectory called AllBackUp which should be created within your script.

If user chooses to back up selected files then they must input files to be backed up in a specific format e.g all files starting with the letter "a" or all files ending with "test". These files should then be backed up to a new sub directory called SelectBackUp which should be created with your script (This is the part I'm struggling with writing the script as he has shown us nothing about script writing only advice he gave was go watch YouTube)
If anyone could help I would be greatly appreciative

Thanks
Andy

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cscope-indexer

cscope-indexer(1)					      General Commands Manual						 cscope-indexer(1)

NAME

       cscope-indexer - Script to index files for cscope

SYNOPSIS

       cscope-indexer [-v] [-f database_file] [-i list_file] [-l] [-r]

DESCRIPTION

       This  script  generates	a list of files to index (cscope.out), which is then (optionally) used to generate a cscope database.  You can use
       this script to just build a list of files, or it can be used to build a list and database.  This script is not used to just build  a  data-
       base (skipping the list of files step), as this can be simply done by just calling "cscope -b".

       Normally,  cscope will do its own indexing, but this script can be used to force indexing.  This is useful if you need to recurse into sub-
       directories, or have many files to index (you can run this script from a cron job, during the night).  It is especially	useful	for  large
       projects,  which  can  contstantly  have source files added and deleted; by using this script, the changing sources files are automatically
       handled.

       Currently, any paths containing "/CVS/" or "/RCS/" are stripped out (ignored).

OPTIONS

       -f database_file
	      Specifies the cscope database file (default: cscope.out).

       -i list_file
	      Specifies the name of the file into which the list of files to index is placed (default: cscope.files).

       -l     Suppress the generation/updating of the cscope database file.  Only a list of files is generated.

       -r     Recurse into subdirectories to locate files to index.  Without this option, only the current directory is searched.

       -v     Be verbose.  Output simple progress messages.

SEE ALSO

       cscope(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system by Robert Lemmen <robertle@semistable.com> (but may  be  used  by  others,	of
       course)

Script to index files for cscope				 30. December 2002						 cscope-indexer(1)