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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting bash script to copy files Post 302511403 by dodgefan67 on Wednesday 6th of April 2011 05:48:55 PM
Old 04-06-2011
bash script to copy files
hey everyone, new here

i have arch setup and i am using smbnetfs to mount some windows shares in /mnt/smbnet

what i want to do is copy files from my home dir to a dir in /mnt/smbnet but i also need it to remove files if i have deleted them from my home dir

seems that cp would be the easiest for me, but i cant get it to remove a file from the dest that has been deleted from the source

example, i can do this as root
Code:
cp -pru /home/user/Videos/* /mnt/smbnet/share/Vids

and it does copy files. and if i add a file, it copies the new one over. but if i delete a file and run this command, the deleted file does not get removed from /mnt/smbnet

didnt see anything in man cp that relates to what i am trying to do. did i miss something? is there a better way?

ok, sorry, this isnt a bash script, but i would put it in one, sorry if my title is misleading
 

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msdosfs

MSDOSFS(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual							MSDOSFS(5)

NAME

     msdosfs -- MS-DOS file system

SYNOPSIS

     options MSDOSFS

DESCRIPTION

     The msdosfs driver will permit the FreeBSD kernel to read and write MS-DOS based file systems.

     The most common usage follows:

	   mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada0sN /mnt

     where N is the partition number and /mnt is a mount point.  Some users tend to create a /dos directory for msdosfs mount points.  This helps
     to keep better track of the file system, and make it more easily accessible.

     It is possible to define an entry in /etc/fstab that looks similar to:

     /dev/ada0sN	     /dos    msdosfs	     rw      0	     0

     This will mount an MS-DOS based partition at the /dos mount point during system boot.  Using /mnt as a permanent mount point is not advised
     as its intention has always been to be a temporary mount point for floppy and ZIP disks.  See hier(7) for more information on FreeBSD direc-
     tory layout.

SEE ALSO

     mount(2), unmount(2), mount(8), mount_msdosfs(8), umount(8)

AUTHORS

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