File indexing completed on 2025-01-26 04:41:21

 #!/bin/bash
 #
 # make a copy of KMyMoney files in a 'safe' directory whenever
 # the contents of the original changed since the last run of this program.
 # In order to make it work for you, please modify the parameters
 # and erase the line following it.
 #
 # in order to automate the process, I entered the following two lines
 # into my crontab using 'crontab -e'
 #
 #   # make a copy of the valuable KMyMoney data every 20 minutes
 #   */20 * * * * /home/thb/bin/kmm-safe
 #
 # (C) 2005 by Thomas Baumgart (ipwizard at users.sourceforge.net)
 
 # DATA_FILES="$HOME/thb.xml $HOME/thb.kmy"
 DATA_FILES="$HOME/thb.kmy"
 SAFE_DIR="$HOME/kmymoney-safe"
 DATE_FORM="%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S"
 
 echo "Please configure to your likings and comment these two lines"
 exit 1
 
 for i in $DATA_FILES; do
   NEWFN=$SAFE_DIR/`basename $i`-`date +$DATE_FORM`
   OLDFN=$SAFE_DIR/`basename $i`-last
 
   # check if we need to keep a copy
   NEEDSAVE=0
   if test ! -e $OLDFN; then
     NEEDSAVE=1
   fi
   if test $NEEDSAVE -eq 0; then
     CS1=`md5sum $i | cut -d' ' -f1`
     CS2=`md5sum $OLDFN | cut -d' ' -f1`
     if test $CS1 != $CS2; then
       NEEDSAVE=1
     fi
   fi 
 
   if test $NEEDSAVE -eq 1; then
     cp $i $NEWFN
     if test -e $OLDFN; then
       rm $OLDFN
     fi
     ln -s $NEWFN $OLDFN
   fi
 done