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cTurtle98
Asked: 2015-04-18 22:14:54 +0800 CST

bash file for managing public private and history of website

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I have a website and i have 3 versions

I have the beta version with the most recent and usually not fully working changes.

I have the public site that is on www.

lastly, i have the history that I copy my old versions to when I move the beta to the public

I want to make a bash file that I run that will first copy the current public site to the "history/current year/current month/current day/"

then it clears out the public directory and copies the beta to the public

finally it prints that it is finished

can someone make a sample bash script for me? i know how to create dirs and copy them and print i just need help with the current date thing

Thanks, Ciaran

14.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Here you're the script:

    #!/bin/bash

day="$(date '+%d')"                # day=DD
moth="$(date '+%m')"               # month=MM (i.e. 04) If do you want to use it by name (i.e. April), use B ('+%B'), to use it's abbreviation (i.e. Apr), use b ('+%b). 
year="$(date '+%Y')"               # year=YYYY, if do you want YY, then use lowercase y ('+%y')
path="history/$year/$month/$day"   # path="/history/$year/$month/$day/"

cd /www                            # Change current directory to /www
echo mkdir -p "$path"                   # Create the directory.
echo mv public_html "$path"             # Move the old data to the history
echo mv beta public_html                # Rename beta to public_html
    • Replace /www with your server's base path.
    • Replace public_html with the public folder.
    • Replace beta with your beta folder.

    I've echoed all the "serious" lines. Run the program.
    It will only echo the commands, not run them.
    If all goes well, then remove all the echoes at the line begin and run again.

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