Creating a Terminal backup file

[grimdestripador]

Its called a script, you most likely want a #/bin/bash or #/bin/sh script.
The script is simple as a text file with the commands you type into the terminal just with one extra line at the beginning.

Scripts are pretty unforgiving if you type something wrong, so you must have everyting working perfectly, then copy paiste from terminal into your script.

Be sure it starts with

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#/bin/sh

One thing that I do, is when I get a command working I add it to my script doing something like the following: Notice that the >> command routes the output to the last line in your text file. So if you tell the computer to echo what you just typed, have that passed to the script, its a few steps simpler than copy and pasting as, just press the up arrow in the terminal to access the previous statement.

Create the text file, with the first line to make it a script

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echo #/bin/sh >> backupscript.sh

I will now use various examples to show what can be done

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 echo echo Starting execuitation of backupscript.sh, please launch with sudo privilages >> backupscript.sh
echo apt-get install -f amarok vlc opera xmms nvidia-glx-177 >> backupscript.sh

echo echo now fixing permissions of shared folders >>backupscript.sh
chmod 755 -R ~/shared >> backupscript.sh

echo echo displaying your IP and restoring your files from rsync backup >>backupscript.sh
echo rsync -avz zeus::desktop Desktop >>backupscript.sh

[emorrp1]

I believe there's a typo in grimdestripador's post, the first line of the script should be:

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#!/bin/sh

[grimdestripador]

so true