[ale] Question about scripts

[smcbrien at gmail.com (Scott McBrien)]

What about using the -v option to cp?

-Scott

On Jul 17, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> 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
>
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