Hey Guys,

After doing some searching on google i still cannot find a specific answer. May be its because my lack of skills in unix. If ayone can help me out or give me a psuedo code i really appreciate it.

I have one unix server ABC. The folders which i am trying to access is :-
/home/web/dummy. Now in dummy folder i might have 2 or 5 different folders something like this:

/home/web/dummy/mike/images
/home/web/dummy/mike/source
/home/web/dummy/mike/testing

/home/web/dummy/john/images
/home/web/dummy/john/source
/home/web/dummy/john/testing

/home/web/dummy/alex/images
/home/web/dummy/alex/source

As you can see under dummy folders i have 3 different folders. But the folder which i am concern about is (testing) folder. So mike and john have testing folder, images and source. I would like to write a script which will have a path of :-

/home/web/dummy

after dummy it will check each and every directory. so first is john it will see if john has testing folder. if john have testing folder then it will copy to my another unix server which is XYZ. So in server XYZ i would like to store the files over here :-

/home/manage/

so if john contains the folder testing then it will copy to my XYZ server :-

/home/manage/john/testing

As you can see i dont want to copy images or source folder. People with testing folder will be only copied. Any guidance on how to achieve it. I know the command tocopy the directory from one server to another but dont know how to achieve this task.

Thank You

Ok. I tried one thing and i just got the 1st part solved.

find /home/web/dummy -type f | grep "testing"

/home/web/dummy/mike/testing
/home/web/dummy/john/testing

Are you looking to copy over the entire directory (including content)?

Something like this:

cd /home/web/dummy
for dir in *; do
   if [ -d ${dir}/testing ]; then
      ssh -l user otherhost "mkdir /home/manage/$dir
      scp -r ${dir}/testing user@otherhost:/home/manage/$dir
   fi
done

Mr Torch,

Can i guve you some dukes Dollars ? ;--) Thank you so much. It works perfectly. Just 2 more things to ask may be you can tell me and i can do it. if not then i will post back.

Yes i need to copy the contents under testing folder also. The script is doing that. Say for instance i have :-

/home/web/dummy/mike/testing/check.txt
/home/web/dummy/john/testing/test.txt

when i run the script the first time it copies

/mike/check.txt
/john/test.txt

The second time i run the script and then it does like this:

/mike/testing/check.txt
/john/testing/test.txt

As you can see i would like to have the testing folder also in there. But for some reason it creates the folder the second time i run. Not a biggie i wil try to figure it out.

Thanks anyways

Ok this is the code i am using:
[code]
cd /home/web/dummy
for dir in *; do
if [ -d ${dir}/testing ]; then
#ssh -l user otherhost "mkdir /home/manage/$dir
scp -r ${dir}/testing user@otherhost:/home/manage/$dir
fi
done
[code]

I tried to change everything i can to make it work but unfortunately i have not succeeded yet. When i run the script the first time it just copies whatever is in testing folder but when i run the code second time everything works fine. My Question is why this is not working the first time when i run my script?

it just copies the contents of testing folder rather than creating a testing folder in XYZ server.

Any help will be really appreciated.