Well, I mean that'll get stuff sure -- but I'm not sure what you're trying to do. 

Remember, ChatGPT will only point you in the right direction ... Like you're sledding in winter, it'll point you towards the downhill side, but it won't stop you from crashing ... You've got to bring SOMETHING to the table. 

What is your goal? Tell me in plain English what you're trying to accomplish and I can help you write a command, or script, to do that. 

Feel free to ping me directly, to keep the distro uncluttered.

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Thanks,
Alexander

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On Sun, Aug 4, 2024, 10:25 Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

I'm running around in circles with chat gpt. I want to backup /home/bmike1 user created data and all other pertinent files.

This is what it tells me:

#!/bin/bash 

# Define source and destination 

SOURCE="/home/bmike1/" 

DESTINATION="/media/rsync/backup/" # Define rsync options 

OPTIONS="-av --delete --exclude='*.lock' --exclude='google-chrome/' --exclude='firefox/' --exclude='thunderbird/'" 

# Run rsync command 

rsync $OPTIONS $SOURCE $DESTINATION

WIll this do it for me?

As for the pertinent files I did this before and there was a few other directories involved. do I need to worry about it?

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