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Naive Bash Backup
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backup.sh
SRCDIR=src
DSTDIR=dst
# copy recursively (-r) updated (-u) files, preserve (-p) attributes if
# possible
$(echo "cp -R -u -p $SRCDIR/* $DSTDIR")
# hack? psh
for file in $(find $DSTDIR/*) ; do
[ ! -e "$SRCDIR/${file#*/}" ] && echo "Removing $file" && rm $file
done
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