rapidwebltd / backup-deletion

💾 Shell script to identify date named backups and remove them

Overview

This shell script is designed to identify any backup files present in a git repository, remove them from the repository (via git rm) and optionally commit and push the changes.

Backup files

Backup files are identified based on their file names ending with an underscore _ following by a string that represents a date.

The following are examples of file names which will be matched by this script.

• terms_3rdOct2011.php
• test_8th_June_2011.php
• logout_5thOct2011.php
• test_260215.php
• style_25thJune2015.css
• style_31st_May_2013.css
• script_20th_May_2015.js

File types

This script currently deals with .php, .css, .js, .htm and .html files.

Download

To get the backup deletion script, cd to your project's directory and run the following wget command.

wget -N https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapidwebltd/backup-deletion/master/backup-deletion.sh

Please note that you should download the script into a valid git repository. If you do not, it will refuse to run due to its destructive nature.

Usage

Run the ./backup-deletion.sh script from within your project's directory.

If you receive a Permission denied error, you need to make the script executable with chmod +x backup-deletion.sh.

License

MIT

backup-deletion's Issues

Possibility to remove files with 'OLD', 'BAK', 'COPY' in the name?

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Detect any backup '.htaccess' files

This could be done by detecting any file names containing '.htaccess' that are not equal to '.htaccess' precisely.

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Add support for .js files

Case insensitive searching for backup file extensions

Test OS X functionality

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Add support for versioned php files (e.g. *.php4, *.php5)

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Reduce duplication of find command calls

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Error when running script

Get the following error message on execution
./backup-deletion.sh.1: line 45: [: too many arguments

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