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Move files with zenity progress bar

gas — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:52:09 +0000

I’m playing with a script that moves files between two directories and does that by piping two tar commands, so called Fast Copy.

You need zenity to see the progress bar, it is a work in progress as there are some bugs, eg when you click “cancel” the two tar child processes are not killed for some reason, I couldn’t get the correct exit code that probably gets lost somewhere.

Probably in the future I’ll write a better notification.Suggestions and modifications are wellcome.

Move files in bash with tar and progress bar

gas — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:14:57 +0000

Example
gas@caldaia ~ $ my_move source_dir/ dest_dir/ 43.5GB at 61.0MB/s eta: 59s 91% [=========== ]

You need to install “command line progress bar”, in gentoo it can be installed with emerge bar in ubuntu the deb can be grabbed here and installed with gdebi.

my_move:
#! /bin/sh SOURCE="$1" DEST="$2" SIZE=$(du -sb "$SOURCE"|awk '{print $1}') (cd "$SOURCE" && tar -cf - *)|bar -s $SIZE| (cd "$DEST" && tar -xBpf -)

Kiss WordPress Upgrade Script

gas — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:26:52 +0000

Description

This is a KISS ( Keep It Simple Stupid ) script to backup and upgrade to the latest version your wordpress blog.You will need a shell / ssh to run this script ( tested on standard linux bash ).

Features

No configuration needed
Full Database Backup
Full blog root backup excluding the backup directory
Automagic blog upgrade
Easily written and hence easily adaptable

Installation

open a shell and “cd” to your wordpress blog root path ( the one that contains wp-admin directory or wp-config.php for example)
wget http://www.lucagasperini.com/wpautoupgrade.sh chmod u+x wpautoupgrade.sh

Usage

open a shell and “cd” to your wordpress blog root path
sh wpautoupgrade.sh
Now point your browser to http://www.example.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php

Restore

I have an idea for doing things the KISS way but no time for now so you have to do things manually . The backup performed is standard so you can simply follow the codex.

Notes

Two different backups are made , content and sql table, they are stored in /pathtoblog/backup.
To download your blog backup file point your browser to http://www.example.com/backup/files.tar.gz.
To download your sql table backup point your browser to http://www.example.com/backup/sql.gz
All backups are kept and are not backed-up ( buckups don’t contain older backups). This mean that over time the backup directory can potentially become huge.Check it and delete older ones
I didn’t want this script to call the upgrade.php autamatically cause it means no feedback at all.
If you don’t have a standard wordpress install don’t use this script. For example if you use a Debian package to install wordpress this script won’t work because the deb has been debianized and all config have been moved to /etc/wordpress rather than standard /blogroot
If it doesn’t work is your fault

Multiple apes

gas — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:24:53 +0000

As a reminder , the [tag]bash[/tag] command to use for decompressing a bunch of monkey’s audio ape files in a directory:
ls |while read line; do mac "$line" "$line".wav -d; done;