[lug] I need help from a bash scripting guru

[Zan Lynx]

On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 22:59 -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
> > I'm working on a file backup script that has a feature
> > of my own design. I have written a script that uses 
> 
> Yeah, I did that once.  Never again.  rdiff-backup might do what you 
> want and be easier to run than rsync.
> 
> > Put another way - Is there one character that never appears in file
> > names of all these OSs, and can be introduced as the field delimiter
> > into GNU join?
> 
> The only characters not allowed in UNIX file names are / and null 
> (AFAIK).  Those aren't terribly suitable for your purpose so I'd guess 
> the answer is, "no."
> 
> But you could try \n or \r.

Join needs two delimiters, one for fields and one for lines.  So, there
isn't any way to use a newline to separate fields because then what
would it use to separate lines?

I would also recommend rdiff-backup.  I rather like it.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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