Browsing the blog archives for February, 2009
This is the first bash script I wrote, I used crontab to periodically backup and compress a mysqldb in a shared hosting environment
#!/bin/sh
user=testdbuser
password=testdb
dbname=testdb
location=~/db_backups
ts=$(date ‘+%Y%m%d-%H%M’)
mysqldump -u$user -p$password –opt $dbname > $location/temp-$ts.sql
cd $location
tar -cvzf $dbname-db-$ts.tar.gz temp-$ts.sql
rm -f temp-$ts.sql
These are all speaking through experience
Stubbornly kept on using deprecated code knowing that it will be remove from the code base in the next version, thereby hindering a smooth transition.
Violating all of the company’s coding and naming standards making things difficult to trace for bugs when you go on leave all of a sudden!
You raise [...]
