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Asked: 2026-05-22T16:13:01+00:00

I am looking to write a Linux shell script in order to perform a

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I am looking to write a Linux shell script in order to perform a backup and restore of all of the source code in my project folder (.c, .cpp, .java, etc)

My script deletes all of these source code files and I want to be able to easily restore the files as well if need be.

Here is what I am doing now:

#copy the entire directory to a backup folder
cp -r $CLEANUP_PATH $BACKUP_PATH

#delete the project and copy from backup to restore source code
rm -rf $CLEANUP_PATH
cp -r $BACKUP_PATH $CLEANUP_PATH

The project is around 600MB, so it takes a long time when I perform these actions.

How would I be able to restore only the source code (rather than the entire directory) from a backup and ensure that each file is restored to the specific directories that each file belongs in?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Consider using tar: it remembers everything about the files, including paths, permissions, and dates. If you source code is inside a few directories, you can extract those directiories by name from the tar file.

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