shell script help

Brandon10 · 03-25-2012, 07:17 PM

Hi. I am new to this and I need help with this shell script.

I am trying to create a shell script where I type filename and it prints something like "backup_Feb_25_2012.

This is what I've wrote so far in the vi text editor

backup -march-5-2012
chmod u+x backup
./backup

Not sure where to add filename here.

Thanks.

chrism01 · 03-25-2012, 07:30 PM

I think you need to expand a bit; what you've written doesn't make sense to me.
You seem to be typing cmds that would be better typed into the cmd line direct, not into the vi editor, which is used for creating shell progs.
Let me guess...

To create a shell prog to do backups,

Code:

# this cmd creates the file named and opens it in vi/vim
vi mybackup.sh

# now you would add the cmds that actually do the backup
....

Code:

# this is done after exiting from the file above 
# ie back in cli
chmod u+x backup
./backup

These should help
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html

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