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May 22, 2008
Quick script to back up a transcript
I was sick of writing lmerge /path/to/transcript.T /dev/null ~/transcript/obsolete/transcript.timestamp.T every time I wanted to back up a transcript before making a change, so I wrote a quick script to back up a transcript to a timestamped file:
#!/bin/bash
# Backs up a transcript to ~/transcript/obsolete
Transcript=$1
TranscriptNoPath="`echo $Transcript | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "/" } { print $NF }'`"
TranscriptNoEnding="`echo $TranscriptNoPath | sed -e \"s/\.T//\"`"
Today="`date +%Y%m%d`"
Target="/var/radmind/transcript/obsolete/${TranscriptNoEnding}.${Today}.T"
/usr/local/bin/lmerge -I $Transcript /dev/null $TargetJust change “/var/radmind/transcript/obsolete/” to whatever folder you want to use.
Posted by slauncha at May 22, 2008 11:40 AM
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