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I am using ubuntu 12.04 TLS in which i have a git repository in a specific directory, what i am trying is to take the scheduled backup of the repository and place it in specific directory that can be mailed.

In the process i get to know to find all the git repository in specific directory by googling i found this below command 

find /home/mysys/D/ -name .git -type d -prune

but it contain the path as

/home/mysys/D/testing/.git

which list all the git files associated in the directory and it is working, but what i need to execute git bundle create directoryname.bundle --all to make it more automated in which i tried the following 

find /home/mysys/D/ -name .git -type d -prune -exec git bundle create test.bundle --all {} \;

The above bash script returns 

fatal: Invalid gitfile format: .git

How to do this to make it work robust.

Thanks in Advance.

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You want to be in the git-controlled directory when git bundle is executed, so use find ... -execdir ... \;

find /home/mysys/D/ -type d -name .git -prune -execdir git bundle create backup.bundle --all \;

That will create a backup.bundle in all these directories. From there you can move those, or process them with more scripting. But the bundling side of things is handled.

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  • Thanks oli it is working is there a way to make the basename as bundlename along with today date is it possible?
    – Vignesh Pichamani
    Mar 31, 2016 at 12:33
  • if the folder name as test then test_31mar2016.bundle like that?
    – Vignesh Pichamani
    Mar 31, 2016 at 12:34
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    Sure, wangle your execdir statement around to something like: sh -c 'git bundle create $(basename $(dirname {}))"_"$(date +"...")".bundle" --all'. (this needs work, ie to format the date)
    – Oli ♦
    Mar 31, 2016 at 12:39
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    Needs a bit more tweaking. $(basename $(readlink -f {}/..)) should get your the parent directory name.
    – Oli ♦
    Mar 31, 2016 at 13:03
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    Sure but you'd need to wrap it in another shell. You'd be better off writing a standalone bash script that calls your find command, an then calling that script from cron.
    – Oli ♦
    Mar 31, 2016 at 15:50

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