Wrote some ruby scripts to help with restore

[backups/.git] / scripts / files-from-date.rb

diff --git a/scripts/files-from-date.rb b/scripts/files-from-date.rb
new file mode 100755 (executable)
index 0000000..4fde0c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/files-from-date.rb
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+#!/usr/bin/ruby
+
+# Make sure the record separator is zero rather than new-line
+$/ = "\0"
+
+# The only argument is the date for which to list files
+date = ARGV.shift.to_i
+
+ARGF.each do |line|
+  # The seventh and eigth fields are the backup date and the file name.
+  backupdate,name = line.split( ' ', 8 )[6,7]
+
+  # Print the name if the backup date matches
+  print name if date == backupdate.to_i
+end