How can I get an array with a list of domains that I can use for a homemade backup script?

Question

I have a script that I used to use in Easy Engine. I adapted it for Webinoly and it almost works, but I'm having trouble generating the array with the list of sites using site -list, because the output is indented and has dashes/hyphens at the beginning of each line:

 - site1.domain.com
 - site2.domain.com
 - site3.domain.com

Also, the output has colors which convert to control characters. So, here's what I have in my array:

-
site1.domain.com


-
site2.domain.com


-
site3.domain.com

but I need the array to have only the domains/folder names:

site1.domain.com
site2.domain.com
site3.domain.com

Do you have any thoughts on this? In case you want more info, here's a post I placed on Stack Exchange.

The script I am using is a variation of this script, which simply zips the site folder, exports the database, and saves the two files on Google Drive.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Do you have a fork of this script on GitHub? If you give me your link I can help you customize it for you.

Comments

Hi! I just set it up (not skilled with GitHub so let me know if I've done it correctly):

https://github.com/sshanky/wp-cli-backups-cloud-storage-webinoly/blob/master/webinoly-wp-cli-backup-gdrive.sh

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I was able to make this work. I used the code from webinoly's /usr/bin/site, taking the part that generates the site list, and removing the formatting. Things seem to be working. Still, would love your feedback and ideas. It could be improved, for sure, and it would also be nice to do the same thing for AWS and Backblaze B2.

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Good idea!

Maybe in the future Webinoly can include an option to have a "raw" output of the list command. Something like:

sudo site -list=raw

What do you think?

Regards.

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@sshanky I used that script just now, it worked fine. 

I hope you will keep this up to date, thank you for this. 

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Did you guys see what we have done in the new Webinoly release (1.8.0), please tell me if it works for you the new RAW option.

Answer 2

I don't know why the old code didn't work, but I solved the problem by abandoning the code I had been using and replacing it with Webinoly code from /usr/bin/site (the part that generates the site list). See the GitHub URLs below if you would like to see the changes.

Comments

FYI

Release v1.8.0 will include a "raw" option to solve this issue and make it easy to developers integrate and use Webinoly in their projects.

Regards.