Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:00:57 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh <mdh_lists@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Subject: Re: rsync or even scp questions.... Message-ID: <7708.70177.qm@web56801.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20081011234612.GA5515@thought.org>
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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
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