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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting bash script to copy files Post 302511424 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 6th of April 2011 06:57:45 PM
Old 04-06-2011
Sounds like you are trying to syncronise to directories, the best tool for this sort of thing is rsync not cp.

You probably need something like:
Code:
rsync -ar --dry-run --del --progress /home/user/Videos/ /mnt/smbnet/share/Vids

Once your happy with what is going to happen remove the --dry-run to do the actual sync.

---------- Post updated at 08:57 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:51 AM ----------

@Nevyn, Don't think compression (-z) will help here as dest filesystem is mounted via samba (compress is maily for network performance when rsync is talking to a remote rsync server). Also I included the -r flag as original cp command was doing sub-directories.
 

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