Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:42:38 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: mdh_lists@yahoo.com Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rsync or even scp questions.... Message-ID: <48F1B87E.6010803@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7708.70177.qm@web56801.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <7708.70177.qm@web56801.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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mdh wrote:
> --- On Sat, 10/11/08, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
>> On the Ubuntu computer I am /home/kline; on my main
>> computer,
>> my home is /usr/home/kline. The following sh script
>> worked
>> perfected when my home on "tao" [FBSD] was
>> /home/kline:
>>
>> P
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> PWD=3D`pwd`;
>> echo "This directory is [${PWD}]";
>>
>> scp -qrp ${PWD}/* ethos:/${PWD}
>> ###/usr/bin/scp -rqp -i /home/kline/.ssh/zeropasswd-id
>> ${PWD}/* \ klin
>> e@ethos:/${PWD}
>>
>> Question #1: is there any /bin/sh method of getting rid of
>> the
>> "/usr"? I switch off between my two computers
>> especially when
>> get mucked up, as with my upgrade to kde4. (Otherwise, I
>> do
>> backups of ~kline as well as other critical directories.)
>>
>> Is there a way of automatically using rsync rather that my
>> kwik-and-dirty /bin/shell script?
>>
>> thanks, people,
>>
>> gary
>=20
> If what you wish to do is simply get rid of /usr in a string, you can u=
se sed like so:
> varWithoutUsr=3D`echo ${varWithUsr} |sed -e 's/\/usr//'`
> After running this, where $varWithUsr is the variable containing a stri=
ng like "/usr/home/blah", the variable $varWithoutUsr will be equal to "/=
home/blah". I create simple scripts like this all the time to rename bat=
ches of files, for example. =20
>=20
> The easier way is probably just to not specify a dir to scp's remote pa=
th though, since it defaults to the user's home directory. =20
Or, in anything resembling Bourne shell:
varWithoutUsr=3D${varWithUsr#/usr}
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
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