[Techtalk] backup - tar

[Akkana Peck]

Conor Daly writes:
> Just had a look and I don't see a char equivalent for seq (echos numbers in
> sequence) but the following will work:
> 
> create the file 'alpha' containing one letter per line (you probably need
> upper and lowercase also).  Then, in your script, do:
> 
> for $LETTER in `grep [a-n] alpha`; do
>   ls -d /home/${LETTER}*
> done

Don't forget that lots of files start with non-alphanumeric
characters.  '.', for example.  For a backup, be sure to include all
printable ascii characters which can be part of a filename (not '/').

	...Akkana