Backup Command Example
Learn the features of Bash scripts by considering an example.
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Backup command
We need an example to consider Bash scripts’ features. Let’s write the command that creates a backup of our photos in the home directory. The command consists of two actions: archiving and copying.
Let’s suppose that we store all our photos in the ~/photo
directory. We want to save them in ~/backup
. Then, the following command creates an archive of the photos there:
tar -cjf ~/photo.tar.bz2 ~/photo && cp -f ~/photo.tar.bz2 ~/backup
Run the commands discussed in this lesson in the terminal below.
Here, the logical AND connects the archiving and ...