backup script

[fotoni2]

Hello,

I need to write a script that will copy files with directories and sub-directories (5 or 6 depths) to another location (update mode would be appreciated) with the two additional rules:
1) copy only files with less than certain size (files those size are less than 100MB).
2) If the extension of a file is ".dat" copy only if the size of that file is less than 200kb.

Thanks for any help.

[o3hC5Di1]

Hi there,

This is usually done using Bash or Python for the reason that they have their own built in file-handling functionalities. It basically means it would be quite a bit easier, using the right tools for the job - kind of thing.

If this is for an assignment, and target infrastructure is unix/linux, you will probably want to have a look at the Posic file system API, which, should be mentioned, is written in C.

http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/glibc-manual-0.02/library_13.html

All the best,
NwN