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NAME

bk

SYNOPSIS

  bk [-?hV]
  bk [filename] [...]

DESCRIPTION

Command to ease backing up a file before editting. If a previously backed up file exists and has a matching checksum a new backup is not made. Backed up files have date/time appended as necessary.

When invoked as root the username is not appended to the backup file name.

Backups are stored relative to file being backed up.

OPTIONS

--help, -?, -h

Display basic help

--man

Display man page

--debug [0-9], --debug [--debug [...]]

Enable debugging mode (using more than once increases verbosity, or specify a level explicitly to a maximum of level 8)

--version, -V

Show version information

ARGUMENTS

<filename> [...]

filename to be backed up. Multiple filenames can be provided.

NOTES

None.

FILES

None

AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2011 Duncan Ferguson. All rights reserved.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Opsview; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

KNOWN BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests via the web interface at https://github.com/duncs/perl-app-bk/issues . I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SEE ALSO

perl