Re: rsync or even scp questions....

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:42:38AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
mdh wrote:
--- On Sat, 10/11/08, Gary Kline <kline@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Or, in anything resembling Bourne shell:

varWithoutUsr=${varWithUsr#/usr}


I'll be damrned! It works--I've used the zsh for almost 20
years; it's a ksh clone++. How, may I ask, does this work?
(I've seen ksh chopping from the RHS; I wrote a short C util to
axe any part of a string, but have never seen *this* voodoo.
LOL++)

In any event, merci infiniement!

gary

PS: this will save my rsync scripts too.



Cheers,

Matthew

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