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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Checking files in remote server and decide to copy file or not Post 302791213 by bakunin on Monday 8th of April 2013 06:44:03 AM
Old 04-08-2013
The thread spacebar pinted you to is a good one. I suggest you study it. Just a final observation on your code:

Quote:
Originally Posted by beezy
Code:
while read $server
do
if ssh $server "cd $directory_name; if [ -r $file2copy ]; then echo "Error: File $file2copy already exists, stop copying..exit"; fi"
 else scp -r $file2copy $server:~/$directory_name
 echo " file copied"
done

This should not work at all because it contains a syntax error. I have indented it to make it more obvious:

Code:
while read $server ; do
     if ssh $server "<cmd>"
     else scp -r $file2copy $server:~/$directory_name
     echo " file copied"
done

The "if" is nowhere closed by a "fi" and the mandatory "then" is missing too. In addition:

Code:
"cd $directory_name; if [ -r $file2copy ]; then echo "Error: File $file2copy already exists, stop copying..exit"; fi"

This should not work because double quotes can't be nested.


I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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