A shell script that makes backup copies of changed files (also involving CRON)

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Rome wasnt built in a day right? Even though I have to get Rome done in alot less days....

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Take your pick
bash Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. sk@sk:~$ pwd
  2. /home/wheel/sk
  3. sk@sk:~$ echo ${PWD}
  4. /home/wheel/sk
AFAIK, pwd is just a function that returns the current path and $PWD is just a variable that changes each time Im at a new path.

Correct? So the best way (IMO) would be just simply using path...
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Re: A shell script that makes backup copies of changed files (also involving CRON)

 
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you shouldn't be cd'ing in a shell script to do backups in my opinion so that should be irrelevant.
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you shouldn't be cd'ing in a shell script to do backups in my opinion so that should be irrelevant.
Not sure what you ment by cd'ing....I havent used cd in anything Ive said.
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Well pwd gives you the current directory. In a shell script if you're not using 'cd' then the result of 'pwd' would never change -- thus raising the question of why use it?
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