Shell Script for Gzipping with date output

Junior41180 · 10-16-2004, 06:33 AM

Hi, I got a cron job already set up for doing a mysqldump (Via cPanel), now what i need to do is create a shell script to gzip the DB dump and output the file name to filename-xx-xx-xxxx.sql.gz

Does anyone know if there is a already configured script for this, or does anyone know what the script should be??

Thanks.

Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this.

darthtux · 10-16-2004, 06:39 AM

This is one I wrote a while back. You'll just need to edit it a little.

#!/bin/sh

echo "Enter directory name"
read arg1

CURRDIR=$arg1
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
DESTDIR=$CURRDIR"$DATE"
mkdir "$DESTDIR"

cp -r $arg1/* $DESTDIR
tar czvf $DESTDIR.tar.gz $DESTDIR
rm -rf $DESTDIR