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I'm interested in writing a script (I've done PHP, ActionScript and JavaScript before, but never Perl or Shell scripts...) to backup files from a directory name that I supply as an argument.

What I want to achieve is this:
1) Script should examine every file in the directory (and it's children) and get the filesize of that file.
2) Add the filesize to a total filesize.
3) Stop at 650MB total and write the list of files examined to a file. That ilst needs to be fed to tar to create an archive of those files.
4) If there are more files in the path to do, continue the 3 steps above and save a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc file of filenames, until the path has been thoroughly examined.

I'm using bash. How do I start?

PLEASE, tell me if I need to correct my thinking before I begin. Thanks!

Take a look at stat:
man stat

You can get the filesize using:
stat -c %s FILENAME

Not the fastest script around, but it will get you started. If you have a lot of large files you may get more more onto the CD if you use a best fit type of algorithim.

Code:

#!/bin/sh



MAX_SIZE=650000000

IFS='

'



TEMP_NAME=`mktemp tarlist.XXXXXX`

SIZE=0

TAR_LIST=""

TAR_NUM=1



mktar()

{

  TAR_FILENAME="backup-${TAR_NUM}.tar"

  echo "Creating tarfile $TAR_FILENAME size $SIZE"

  tar -cf $TAR_FILENAME -T $TEMP_NAME

  SIZE=0

  TAR_NUM=`expr $TAR_NUM + 1`

  rm -f $TEMP_NAME

}



for FILE in `find . -type f \( ! -name 'backup*.tar' \)  -printf '%p %s\n'`; do



  CURRENT_SIZE=`echo $FILE | cut -d' ' -f2`

  SIZE=`expr $SIZE + $CURRENT_SIZE`



  if [ $SIZE -lt $MAX_SIZE ]; then

      echo $FILE | cut -d' ' -f1 >> $TEMP_NAME

  else

      mktar

  fi

done



if [ $SIZE -gt 0 ]; then

  mktar

fi