occasionally I run a backup of my phpbb forum files from the Shell command line:
zip -r forum_backup ~/public_html/forum/*
I'd like to add date elements to the file name, so that the zip file created is automatically formed as
forum_backup_05182013.zip
any other similar current date format would also be acceptable
now=$(date +"%m%d%Y")
zip -r forum_backup_$now ~/public_html/forum/
Without defining a variable first you can do it in one line with
zip -r "forum_backup_$(date +"%Y-%m-%d").zip" filelist
As taken from here
the following shell command, change the format as you want
FORMAT="%Y%m%d"
_DATE=$(date +"$FORMAT" )
zip -r "forum_bakcup_${_DATE}" ~/public_html/forum/*
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I'm using the command ls *Pattern*Date* Files.txt to get a list of files from FTP to my local text file.
I'm now required to get multiple patterned files (The Date and Pattern may come in different order). So when I try to add another line ls *Date*Pattern* Files.txt, this clears the FCCfiles.txt and I'm not able to get the first set of files.
Is there any command that can append the list of files rather than creating new files list?
You cannot append the listing to a file with ftp.
But you can merge multiple listings in PowerShell. I assume that you run ftp from PowerShell, based on your use of powershell tag.
In ftp script do:
ls *Pattern*Date* files1.txt
ls *Date*Pattern* files2.txt
And then in PowerShell do:
Get-Content files1.txt,files2.txt | Set-Content files.txt
(based on How do I concatenate two text files in PowerShell?)
I have many folder like data_1,data_2, data_3 etc, that will be generated during program running. I want to copy these folders into .tar file named full_data.tar in a specified folder.
How can I insert folders named data_1,data_2, data_3 etc into full_data.tar in MATLAB by using UNIX commands?
As #kedarps already proposed I would also use the command line. The matlab command to execute command line arguments is:
status = system(command)
It is documented under this link:
system documentation
So if I take the unixcommand from #kedarps this should work:
system('tar -cvf full_tar.tar data_1 data_2 data_3')
I hope this helps
I have downloaded some files with PSFTP from a SQL Server. The problem is that PSFTP changes the dates of creation/update and last modified of the files when downloading them in a local folder. For me it is important to keep the original dates. Is there any command to set/change it? Thanks
This is the script of the batch file
psftp.exe user#host -i xxx.ppk -b abc.scr
This is the scriptof the SCR file
cd /path remote folder
lcd path local folder
mget *.csv
exit
I'm not familiar with PSFTP and after looking at the docs I don't see any option to do this. However, you can use the -p flag of pscp to preserve dates and times.
See docs here.
(note it's a lower-case p, the other case is for specifying the port)
Suppose I have a directory structure like
C:\Users\Desktop\abc\d
I want to rar archive the abc folder so that the structure of rar is:
abc\d
When I try using powershell to archive, winrar replicates the full path inside the archive, like:
\Users\Desktop\abc\d
I dont want the full path to be created inside the archive
Here's the script:
https://gist.github.com/saurabhwahile/50f1091fb29c2bb327b7
What am I doing wrong?
Use the command line:
Rar.exe a -r -ep1 Test.rar "C:\Users\Desktop\abc"
Rar.exe is the console version of WinRAR stored in same directory as WinRAR.exe. You can use this command line also with WinRAR.exe if you want to see the compression process in a graphic window.
a is the command and means add files to archive.
-r is a switch to recursively add all files and subdirectories including empty subdirectories to the archive.
-ep1 is another switch which results in execluding base directory.
For this command line the base directory is "C:\Users\Desktop\" and therefore the created archive Test.rar contains only abc and all files and subdirectories in directory abc which is what you want.
One more hint: Using the command line
Rar.exe a -r -ep1 Test.rar "C:\Users\Desktop\abc\"
results in adding all files and subdirectories of directory abc to the archive, but without directory name abc being also stored in the archive. The backslash at end makes this difference.
In other words: On using switch -ep1 everything up to last backslash in file/directory specification is not added to the archive.
For more information about available switches see the text file Rar.txt in the program files directory of WinRAR.
I have a bunch of text files which have both strings and numbers in it, but the string are just in the first few rows.
I'm trying to write a script which go in to my folder search all the file in the folder and delete the text from the files and write the rest as it is in the new text file.
Does anybody know how?
I don't think this is a good use of MATLAB.
I think you'd be better off scripting this in Python or shell. Here is one way you could do it with tr in shell if you're on *nix or mac and if your files are all in the same directory and all have the file extension .txt:
#!/bin/sh
for i in `ls *.txt`
do
cat $i | tr -d "[:alpha:]" > $i.tr.txt
done
To run. save the code above as a file, make it executable (chmod a+x filename), and run it in the directory with your text files.
If the number of string lines is always the same, you can use textread() with 'headerlines' option to skip over those string lines, then write the entire text buffer out.