rsync / sh help

chrisfirestar · 01-26-2006, 07:39 PM

Hi everyone,

I havent been on for a while but wanted to get some help for an issue..

Im not the best with sh but I need to do the following in a script.

1. Rsync /www/admin with /repos/admin
2. list all folders under /www/projects
3. for each of those projects
rsync /www/projects/<project> /repos/projects/<project>

its the looping that I have problems with..

Cheers

macemoneta · 01-26-2006, 07:53 PM

1. rsync -av --progress --partial --delete /www/admin/ /repos/admin/

It was hard to tell from your description which directory was the source. In the command above '/www/admin' is the source and '/repos/admin' is the destination. Flip them if you want it the other way.

2. There is no step 2!

3. rsync -av --progress --partial --delete /www/projects/ /repos/projects/

With the -a option, rsync will recurse (copy subdirectories), so there's no need to code it.

chrisfirestar · 01-26-2006, 07:59 PM

thanks for your reply.. thing is I want to do each sync individually for the projects because in my repos I have directories for each project.. eg /repos/projects/<project>/source/

so i want the script to list all the projects under /www/projects then do a sync for each of those.. how can I get the list of folders and loop through them for the sync.

You were right btw www is the source

macemoneta · 01-26-2006, 10:43 PM

I'm still having a problem understanding the issue. All the projects under /www/projects/, and all the subdirectories in those projects, will be sync'd by the one rsync command. There is no reason to manually traverse the hierarchy.