[nmglug] Bash Scripting help

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 14:57 -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 12:47 -0800, Tim Emerick wrote:
> > I've been working on a bash backup script that runs as a cron job.  To say
> > it's inelegant is an understatement at best.  I could use some advice on
> > structure and output.
> > 
> > 1. Rotating backup sets is tedious if I wanted to add or delete the number of
> > sets to retain.  Is there a way to loop using a variable?
> 
> There is a script called "logrotate" in Debian that does what you want.

I have that wrong... it's "savelog".  "logrotate" is a different thing.