Currently, I'm running these two commands to create a quick backup of the directory. Is there a way to combine the two commands into one, so that I am copying and renaming the new directory in one command?
#cp -R /tf/Custom_App /tf/Custom_App_backups/
#mv /tf/Custom_App_backups/Custom_App /tf/Custom_App_backups/Custom_App_2017-12-21
Best Answer
You should be able to do just
However, if the target directory already exists, this would append the final part of the source path to the destination path, creating
/tf/Custom_App_backups/Custom_App_2017-12-21/Custom_App
, and then copy the rest of the tree within that.To prevent this, use
/tf/Custom_App/.
as the source. Of course, in that case you might want torm -r /tf/Custom_App_backups/Custom_App_2017-12-21
first, if you don't want older files lying around there after the copy.The difference between
/some/dir
and/some/dir/.
was discussed a while back in cp behaves weirdly when . (dot) or .. (dot dot) are the source directory