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A simple zipper command with custom name, ideal for make simple backups in unix systems.
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backupit.sh
# Author: Jose Romualdo Villalobos Perez
# Date: 18 oct, 2018
# Shell is white-space sensitive in many places, inluding = operator
# var = foo throw error
# var=foo is fine
dirName=$1
DATE=`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'`
zipFile="$dirName-$DATE.zip"
zip -r $zipFile $dirName
echo "\nFolder zipped into: $zipFile"
echo "Full path: $PWD/$zipFile"
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