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--- 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=`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

If what you wish to do is simply get rid of /usr in a string, you can use sed like so:
varWithoutUsr=`echo ${varWithUsr} |sed -e 's/\/usr//'`
After running this, where $varWithUsr is the variable containing a string like "/usr/home/blah", the variable $varWithoutUsr will be equal to "/home/blah".  I create simple scripts like this all the time to rename batches of files, for example.  

The easier way is probably just to not specify a dir to scp's remote path though, since it defaults to the user's home directory.  

- mdh