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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:02:12 +0800
From: nidhog <nidhog AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Winzip & Zip
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On 11/7/05, zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> Everyone knows the very useful Winzip, however some pretty clever "automatic" stuff can be done
> using CygWins zip
>
>
> # zip a webroot but only html or php files
> zip.exe  -r web.zip c:/intranet/web/ -i *.php *.htm*
>
> # zip a list of files where  list.txt contains one file name per line
> zip all.zip -@ < list.txt
>
> find . -name "*.[ch]" -print | zip source -@
>
> Now you can start using the above for a regular backup if you link them to a cron

nice tips!

used to use zip for backups a long time ago... then tar.gz... now i use rsync.

best,
--
/nh

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