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NAME

    bak - Copy files to a backup directory, appending today's date

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bak

SYNOPSIS

    bak [-d backup_dir] file ...

 Options:
   -d     specify a backup directory (defaults to ~/BACKUPS)
   -h     get help
   -q     be quiet

OPTIONS

-d

Specify a backup directory (defaults to ~/BACKUPS)

-h

Prints this manual page in text format.

-q

Don't print progress messages on screen while copying.

DESCRIPTION

bak is a simple command line utility to save snapshots of a file to a backup directory. Typically, it is used in connection with mop.pl which cleans up afterwards and deletes all but daily, weekly and monthly snapshots. See the article on

    http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2001/09/Perl/perl.html

for details;

EXAMPLES

  $ bak foo   # Copies foo to ~/BACKUPS/foo_2004

LEGALESE

Copyright 2004 by Mike Schilli, all rights reserved. This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

2004, Mike Schilli <m@perlmeister.com>