#!/usr/bin/env bash DIRECTORY=$1 FILENAME=$2 if [ -z "${DIRECTORY}" ]; then echo "DIRECTORY (first argument) is missing" echo "Usage: $0 folder_to_backup" exit fi if [ -z "${FILENAME}" ]; then FILENAME=$DIRECTORY fi FILENAME=${FILENAME} \ | tr '/' _ \ | iconv -t ascii//TRANSLIT \ | sed -r s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/_/g \ | sed -r s/^_+\|-+$//g TIMESTAMP=$(date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S") FILENAME_TIMESTAMP="${FILENAME}_${TIMESTAMP}" tar cvzf "${FILENAME_TIMESTAMP}.tar.gz" "${DIRECTORY}/"