CCCPaste

Bash script to tar home/justin to current directory

# File: tar-home.sh
# Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Justin Hanekom 
# Licensed under the MIT License

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# Setup a safe Bash scripting environment

set -o errexit      # Exit immediately if an error occurs
set -o noclobber    # Do not allow files to be overwritten via redirect
set -o nounset      # Do not allow unset variables

# Set the exit code of a pipeline to the rightmost non-zero on error

set -o pipefail

# Set the internal field separator to newline or tab, but not space

IFS=$'\n\t'

# Setup a secure Bash scripting environment by: setting a secure path;
# clearing all aliases; clearing the command path hash; setting the hard limit
# to 0 to turn off core dumps; and setting a secure umask

PATH=$(PATH='/bin:/usr/bin' getconf PATH); export PATH
builtin unalias -a
hash -r
ulimit -H -c 0 --

UMASK=002
umask ${UMASK}

# Global constant definitions

TS=$(date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S')
FILE="home-justin_${TS}.tar.gz"
DEST_DIR=$(pwd)

(
    cd /home
    tar --create --atime-preserve --gzip --preserve-permissions --seek \
	--verbose --file="${DEST_DIR}/${FILE}" justin || true
)