Incremental Commit to see WTF I was doing.

backupDatabase.sh

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 # Take all variables in .env and turn them into local variables for this script
-source ~/.env
+source /home/mab/.env
 
 BACKUPDIR="/home/mab/databaseBackupSolidScribe"
 
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR
 cd $BACKUPDIR
 
 NOW=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M")
-ssh [email protected] -p 13328 "mysqldump --all-databases --single-transaction --user root -p$PROD_DB_PASS" > "backup-$NOW.sql"
+mysqldump --all-databases --single-transaction --user root --password="$PROD_DB_PASS" > "backup-$NOW.sql"
 gzip "backup-$NOW.sql"
 
 # cp "backup-$NOW.sql" "/mnt/Windows Data/DatabaseBackups/backup-$NOW.sql"
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ gzip "backup-$NOW.sql"
 echo "Database Backup Complete on $NOW"
 
 # Delete all but last 8 files
-ls -tp | grep -v '/$' | tail -n +9 | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 rm --
+#ls -tp | grep -v '/$' | tail -n +9 | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 rm -f --
 
 ## 
 # Restore DB