Posts Tagged bash

Zipped folder backup

A simple bash script that zips a folder and sets the archive name to the current date.

#!/bin/bash
 
# Archive name structure: ddMMYYYY_HHmmss.zip
 
archiveName=`date +%d%m%Y_%H%M%S`.zip
folderName=MyFolder
 
zip -r $archiveName $folderName