I would like to have a rsync shell script that the user will enter the folder or file to sync to another server.
i.e. - ./deploy /html/ or ./deploy /html/kuky.txt
the script will wait for the input and then will execute the rsync script please help.
Here you go:
echo "Enter file or folder path" read target if [ ! -e "$target" ] then echo $target does not exist else echo Transferring $target rsync -avzr $target [email protected]:/home/user/target_directory fi put this into a file called sender.sh. Then call bash sender.sh from command line.
I suggest you look up options of rsync command. They may change behavior a great deal.
Can's answer requires a user to run the script and then type the path manually, the following will allow you to use the syntax you specified in your OP:
#!/bin/bash echo -n "Transferring ${*} to server... " rsync -az ${*} <user>@<server>:/path/to/target/ 1> /dev/null echo "Done!" This script will take all CLI arguments given to it as source directories/files, and send them to the server.
