help required for passing parameters to rsync within a script - Tools
This is a discussion on help required for passing parameters to rsync within a script - Tools ; I'm attempting to write a short script to copy all 'CONC*' files in any
subdir under ./ using rsync and filters but I can't get the correct
quoting/escaping... any ideas?
eg cmd line (all on a single line):
/home/horace/mccssmb2/src/rsync-2.6.9__icc/rsync --times ...
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help required for passing parameters to rsync within a script
I'm attempting to write a short script to copy all 'CONC*' files in any
subdir under ./ using rsync and filters but I can't get the correct
quoting/escaping... any ideas?
eg cmd line (all on a single line):
/home/horace/mccssmb2/src/rsync-2.6.9__icc/rsync --times --links -z
--progress --stats -v -rP --filter='+ */' --filter='+ CONC*' --filter='-
*' . michael@ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk:/data_hdd1/michael/`basename $PWD`
but I can't see how to sort FILTER in this bash script such that + and
*/ all work properly... ta, Michael
# cmd - need newer than system rsync
RSYNC_EXE=${HOME}/src/rsync-2.6.9__icc/rsync
RSYNC_CMDS='--times --links -z --progress --stats -v --dry-run -rP'
# source top-level
SRC=. # from here down
# dest (remote)
DEST=michael@ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk:/data_hdd1/michael/`basename $PWD` #
ensure in same dir on remote
# filter: all subdirs but only CONC* files
FILTER="--filter=+ \* --filter=+ CONC\* --filter=- \*"
echo $FILTER
set -x
${RSYNC_EXE} ${RSYNC_CMDS} ${FILTER} ${SRC} ${DEST}
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Re: help required for passing parameters to rsync within a script
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 22:22 +0100, michael wrote:
> I'm attempting to write a short script to copy all 'CONC*' files in any
> subdir under ./ using rsync and filters but I can't get the correct
> quoting/escaping... any ideas?
> # filter: all subdirs but only CONC* files
> FILTER="--filter=+ \* --filter=+ CONC\* --filter=- \*"
> echo $FILTER
> set -x
> ${RSYNC_EXE} ${RSYNC_CMDS} ${FILTER} ${SRC} ${DEST}
The trouble is that, when you expand ${FILTER} outside of double quotes,
bash will split on all spaces in the value, which cuts each filter rule
in two. To fix this, you can use an underscore instead of a space to
separate the +/- symbol from the pattern, or you can switch to bash
arrays as shown here (but omit the colon before "${COMMAND[@]}" !):
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync...st/021580.html
Matt
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Re: help required for passing parameters to rsync within a script
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 20:39 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 22:22 +0100, michael wrote:
> > I'm attempting to write a short script to copy all 'CONC*' files in any
> > subdir under ./ using rsync and filters but I can't get the correct
> > quoting/escaping... any ideas?
>
> > # filter: all subdirs but only CONC* files
> > FILTER="--filter=+ \* --filter=+ CONC\* --filter=- \*"
> > echo $FILTER
> > set -x
> > ${RSYNC_EXE} ${RSYNC_CMDS} ${FILTER} ${SRC} ${DEST}
>
> The trouble is that, when you expand ${FILTER} outside of double quotes,
> bash will split on all spaces in the value, which cuts each filter rule
> in two. To fix this, you can use an underscore instead of a space to
> separate the +/- symbol from the pattern, or you can switch to bash
> arrays as shown here (but omit the colon before "${COMMAND[@]}" !):
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync...st/021580.html
aha, the underscore, rather than space, for +/- helped (missed that in
the doc before... esp since there's no examples with it!)
M
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