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Hello has all and thank you in advance this time for help,

I explain you my probleme:
I have two machines: machine A: AIX and machine B: Linux RedHat

On the machine A, I have a serie of file under some tree to inform in a filename.list file

Ex:
/home/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/dir5/file1.sh
/home/dir1/dir2/dir6/dir6/dir8/file2.sh

I need to copy files lists in my filename.list file on my machine B by reproducing the tree of the machine A.

In the example, there is only two file has to set, but in my case it is more 300.

I had think has to make a cat filename.list may use tar and finally scp then again tar on the target machine but how imbricate some with the others

Thank you in advance for your reponses

Bonjour!

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Do you need just the files? Then create a listing using find, loop over that list & create the files using mkdir and touch.
Do you need to copy over the files just once? Use tar + ssh.
Do you need to keep the 2 trees synchronized? Use rsync.

Example for the one-shot copy:

Code:

cd /home/dir1/dir2 ; tar -cf - . | ssh target 'cd /home/dir1/dir2 ; tar -xf -'

Hello, thanks for your help,

But i need on the same shell :
- create the same tree on machine A & B
- copy files on the same place (because files are launch by scheduler)
- i don't need all files on machine A, that's why i have create filename.list

I try this but it's not working

Code:

cat filename.list | while read FILENAME; do tar -cf - $FILENAME | ssh target 'cd / ; tar -xf -';done

I have this error message :
All files and tree are correctly create on target machine but the owner and the right of file and directory is not ok

Why not use rsync with a '--include merge' option using a list of files to include in the transfer. (type "man rsync" to get all the options, there's certainly one that match your needs).

First off, you get a Useless Use of Cat Award.

Second, you don't need to run tar once for each individual file; assuming a small number of files, you can do this:

Code:

# This will print files and paths on the target to prove it does what you want
xargs tar -cf - < filename.list | ssh target tar -C / -tf -
# If that works right, this will actually create files on the target
xargs tar -cf - < filename.list | ssh target tar -C / -xf -