[ale] Question about scripts

[brandon at brandonchecketts.com (Brandon Checketts)]

Chuck Payne wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I need to copy a dir with a lot of files, and I want to make sure I
> get them all, but I can't get my script to write to my log, any clues
> how I can get to work? Also how I can get to dump to one line per
> file?
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> touch /var/log/copyfiles.log
> 
> dircopy="/vhosts/pictures/vikram"
> dirremote="/media1"
> 
> while true ; do
> echo "`cp -R $dircopy/*  $dirremote `" >> /var/log/copyfiles.log
> done
> 
> Thanks
> 

Is there a reason not to use rsync?  It will copy everything, preserve file
permissions, owners, timestamps, etc.  It can even copy between machines.  A
simple directory-to-directory copy would be:

rsync -taz $dircopy $dirremote

The man page has tons of options available to do just about anything you can
imagine.


Thanks,
Brandon Checketts