Backup Command Example

Backup command

We need an example to consider Bash scripts’ features. Let’s write the command that creates a backup of our photos in the home directory. The command consists of two actions: archiving and copying.

Let’s suppose that we store all our photos in the ~/photo directory. We want to save them in ~/backup. Then, the following command creates an archive of the photos there:

tar -cjf ~/photo.tar.bz2 ~/photo && cp -f ~/photo.tar.bz2 ~/backup

Run the commands discussed in this lesson in the terminal below.

Here, the logical AND connects the archiving and ...