You could look into the backup utilities that emacs provides out of the
box.  See the manual for further explanation: (info "(Emacs) Backup").

On 2013-12-21 15:23 Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Can somebody help me please, I want to put this line into my .emacs -
> 'cp ~/.emacs ~/.emacs.d/.emacs-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)' but it works as part
> of a bash script, but I don’t know elisp to get it working in my .emacs.
> What it does is save a dated and timed copy of your .emacs in your
> ~/.emacs.d so that when you're trying things out and learning how to
> use .emacs you'll always have a backup copy. A case in point, last
> night I had org2blog working, today, after fiddling its stopped
> working, but if I'd had this operational I could just revert to a known
> and working .emacs. So, can you help please?
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.

HTH,
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 Alexander Baier

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