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I need help coming up with something that will add a time/date flag so I can input an option for the following script to back up all files in a specified directory that have been modified after some inputted date or time, ie a command line something like this:

./backup.sh -i '/home/foo/* -o backup -d 3h

OR

./backup.sh -i '/home/foo/* backup -t 2007-12-12 18:00

which will backup any files in the home/foo/* directory that were modified in the past 3 hrs for the first permutation or backup anything modified after 6pm 12/12/07 for the second. I need to add these options to the script I have now but am not sure how to implement it. Help!

#!/bin/bash
#backup file script
unset myInput
unset myOutput
while getopts "i:o:" myOpt
do
if [ $myOpt == "i" ]
then
myInput="$myInput $OPTARG"
elif [ $myOpt == "o" ]
then
myOutput="$OPTARG"
fi
done

if [ -z "$myInput" ]
then
echo "Missing list of input files/dirs"
exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$myOutput" ]
then
echo "Missing archive name"
exit 1
fi

# calculate next archive file in sequence
num=1
archiveNum=`printf "%03d" $num`
archiveFile="$myOutput-$archiveNum.tar"
while [ -e "$archiveFile" ]
do
num=$(( $num + 1 ))
archiveNum=`printf "%03d" $num`
archiveFile="$myOutput-$archiveNum.tar"
done

echo "[Backing up $myInput to $archiveFile]"

for file in $myInput
do
if [ ! -e "$file" ]
then
echo "Input file/dir $file does not exist"
exit 1
fi
done

tar -jScvf $archiveFile $myInput

Consider using find command.



will find in yourdirectory all files or directories (-type f -o -type d) last modified in less than 4*24 hours (-mtime -4).

You can backup them with cpio like this:


When reading man find pay attention to the following options: -mtime, -mmin (the same as -mtime but time range in minutes), -daystart.

Date arithmetic remains up to you.

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