Shell script

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi ,
I am new to shell scripting.Please help me with this.

Write a shell script that copies all files in a current directory into a "Backup" or "Archive" directory, then combines all files in that directory into on "tar" file via the "tar" program, and finally compresses the tarred file via 'gzip' . And we have to delete the backup files older that 1 month.

edit by scottn: Homework violation. Thread closed.

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Huh? Simple rules of the UNIX.COM forums:

Also, it seems to be some kind of homework...? If so, please follow this link:

If not, then... show us what you tried so far. :slight_smile:

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your requirements are not clear and as it is said before it sounds like a homework. However as i write a similar script to compress CDR files before i can help you, i havent tested it, not sure if its %100 sure. Besides you can run this daily:

DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
PATH=`/path/to/current/directory`
if [ ! -e $PATH/Backup$DATE ]; then
mkdir $PATH/Backup$DATE
fi
find $PATH -type f -name "*.cdr" -mtime -1 -exec cp * $PATH/Backup$DATE {} \;
tar -cvf Backup$DATE.tar $PATH/Backup$DATE
gzip Backup$DATE.tar