[Klug-general] rsync and konqueror

[Peter Childs]

On 29 May 2011 07:46, sharon kimble <boudiccas at talktalk.net> wrote:

> AT the moment I'm backing up to an external USB 500 gig drive which is
> formatted ext3 using rsync which works very well. I currently invoke it as
> 'rsync -av /home/boztu/ /media/disk/20110521/' an djust change the
> date for each successive day. i now want to do this via a cron job but
> am at a loss as to how to change the date for it. Can anyone suggest a
> way in which this can be done please?
>

rsync -av /home/boztu/ /media/disk/`date +%Y%m%d`/

The date command is inside back tick quotes.

Formatting is done via formatting parameters for date, (see man date)

As for the back ticks and how do more complex things look at the shell
manual, man bash.

Peter.


> there is probably a simple answer to this although its hard to explain!
> I've added konqueror to the file opening when you right-click a file, but
> even when i open a file from konqueror it opens a new window of one.
> How do i get it to stay focused on open instance and not keep
> spawning other windows please?
>
> This is with KDE 4.4.5 under debian 6
>
> Thanks
> Sharoin.
>
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