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Hi Gary,

Gary Kline wrote:
> 	I have two "desktop" computers; three, if you count my new 
> 	ThinkPad.  The TPad needs a new CAT5 cable, so for now I'm only
> 	considereing the two tower computers.
> 
> 	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:
> 

~kline   is an alias for the home directory for the user kline.  You can 
use that in your scripts rather than the full path :)
As far as I know it works in all *nix variants.

Cheers
cya
Andrew

> 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
> 
> 
> 	PS: Complete disclosure: it works one way [tao to ethos] because
> 	    I have created a /usr/home/kline/* tree on ethos.  .... 
> 
> 	PPS:  if this seems like a numbskull query, i only caught a few
> 	      hours sleep last night!
> 
> 
> 
> 
>