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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: backing up files
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.053404.6435@alphalpha.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 05:34:04 GMT
References: <9104021508.AA11965@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>
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In article <9104021508.AA11965@pan.ssec.honeywell.com> thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson) writes:
>
>> I want to back up all the .ftn, .f, .c, and .h files in a directory tree
>> that is about 40 meg binaries and source.  I did a tried this:
>> 
>> 	wbak `find $SRC \( -name '*.[fch]' -o -name '*.ftn' \) ...` \
>> 	 -dev ct -f 1
>> 
...
>expand them, though.
>    /usr/apollo/bin/wbak ?*.[fch] ?*.ftn -dev ct -f 1 
>is the base command.  I lose track of the escape-char rules, but I imagine
>that you might need something along the lines of
>    /usr/apollo/bin/wbak \?\*.\[fch\] \?\*.ftn -dev ct -f 1 
>in order to prevent cron or it's default shell from expanding them.

Since you need recursive what you really want is
	/usr/apollo/bin/wbak $SRC/.../\?\*.\[fch\] $SRC/.../\?\*.ftn
Single quotes would be easier, but then you probably want the variable
expansion.

I do wish Unix had a ... wildcard.  You could dispense with 90% of
the times when you use find.
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