Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:18:56 +1030 From: Andrew D <andrewd@webzone.net.au> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, 'FreeBSD Stable' <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rsync or even scp questions.... Message-ID: <48F173A8.7000506@webzone.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20081011234612.GA5515@thought.org> References: <20081011234612.GA5515@thought.org>
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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!
>
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