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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Creating a ksh script to copy a folder Post 302973899 by Don Cragun on Monday 23rd of May 2016 04:34:08 PM
Old 05-23-2016
The easy way to write a script to do some is to figure out how to do it manually first and then build a script that incorporates that manual command (or set of commands) and puts it (or them) in a script with a little bit of boilerplate in a loop (since you want to repeat the process for a set of servers instead of just doing it for one server).

If you can't show us the exact command(s) you would type into ksh to copy files from your source folder to a destination folder on one of your target servers, and a sample of your configuration file format including at least the configuration details for the target server used in your example showing the commands you would use to manually copy files to that server, we can't help you automate your manual process.

Note that this is the UNIX and Linux Forums. My understanding is that winscp is intended for use on Windows systems; not UNIX and UNIX-like systems. When you need help with a script to run on Windows, you need to clearly state that up front. Are your destination servers also running Windows? (If not, what operating systems are they running.)

Note also that homework and coursework questions can only be posted in the Homework & Coursework forum under special homework rules. If this is a homework assignment, please review the guidelines for posting homework and repost in the proper forum.
 

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mhpath

mhpath(1mh)															       mhpath(1mh)

Name
       mhpath - print full pathnames of MH messages and folders

Syntax
       mhpath [ +foldername ] [ msgs ] [ -help ]

Description
       Use the command to display the full pathname of the specified folder.  If you do not specify a folder, displays the pathname of the current
       folder.

       If you specify a message with its message number, displays the pathname of the specified message.  You can also specify a  number  of  mes-
       sages,  or  a range of messages.  If the top of the range that you specify is greater than the last message in the folder, displays as much
       of the specified range as possible.

       Additionally can take a keyword or a sequence name.  The following keywords are acceptable:

       first	 The first message in the folder.

       last	 The last message in the folder.

       new	 The message after the last message in the folder.  You cannot use new as part of a message range.

       cur	 The current message in the folder.

       prev	 The message before the current message.

       next	 The message after the current message.

       all	 All of the messages in the folder.

Options
       -help	 Prints a list of the valid options to this command.

Examples
       In the following example, displays message 3 in the folder
       % mhpath +inbox 3
       /r/phyl/Mail/inbox

       The following example displays the pathname of messages 2 to 5 in the current folder:
       % mhpath 2-5
       /r/phyl/Mail/inbox/2
       /r/phyl/Mail/inbox/3
       /r/phyl/Mail/inbox/4
       /r/phyl/Mail/inbox/5

Profile Components
       Path:   To determine your Mail directory

Files
       The user profile.

See Also
       folder(1mh)

																       mhpath(1mh)
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