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  1. 1 cwd - copy with date
  2. 2 How to update something using a patch (Wordpress, pmwiki etc.)
  3. 3 Copy and rename files with wildcards (globs)

cwd - copy with date

to date shell osx mac bash unix file copy by jvs on Sep 10, 2008 
unset -f cwd
function cwd() {
   declare dirname filename newfile
   if [[ ! -f "$1" ]]; then echo "No such file: ${1}"; return 1; fi
   if [[ $# -eq 1 ]]; then 
      dirname="$(/usr/bin/dirname "${1}")"
   elif [[ $# -eq 2 ]]; then
      if [[ ! -d "$2" ]]; then echo "No such directory: ${2}"; return 1; fi
      dirname="${2%/}"
   else
      echo "argument error"
      return 1
   fi
   #/bin/sleep 1
   filename="$(/usr/bin/basename "${1}")"
   newfile="${dirname}/${filename}.$(/bin/date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S)"
   #newfile="${dirname}/${filename}.$(/bin/date +%Z-%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S)"
   /bin/cp -ip "${1}" "${newfile}"
   return 0
}


cwd file
cwd file dir

How to update something using a patch (Wordpress, pmwiki etc.)

to wordpress copy patch update txd upgrade fix overwrite pmwiki howto by bernd on Jun 22, 2007
After unzipping, taring or whatever archive you used copy thepatch over the old files, replacing them.

Copy the files in your newly extracted directory (pmwik-new/wordpress-patch) over the files of your existing software installation. For example, if your existing PmWiki/Wordpress installation is in a directory called pmwiki/wordpress, then one way to copy the new files over the existing ones is to enter the command:
cp -a pmwiki-new/. pmwiki


Note that BSD systems will not have the -a option as a command-line argument for cp, but that's okay, since it's just shorthand for cp -dpR, so use that instead of -a.

On (some) FreeBSD servers and Mac OS X systems you need to use
cp -Rpv pmwiki-new/. pmwiki

This works well on TxD shared hosting.

Copy and rename files with wildcards (globs)

to ruby rename glob copy Dir by johnatl on Jun 19, 2006 1 Comments
To copy files jgarner_* to Alias_*:

Dir.glob("jgarner_*") { |name| `cp #{name} #{name.sub(/jgarner_/, "Alias_")}`}

or

ruby -e 'Dir.glob("jgarner_*") { |name| `cp #{name} #{name.sub(/jgarner_/, "Alias_")}`}'

3 total

On This Page:

  1. 1 cwd - copy with date
  2. 2 How to update something using a patch (Wordpress, pmwiki etc.)
  3. 3 Copy and rename files with wildcards (globs)