Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

I have a set of documents in a folder in my laptop (project files, codes etc) . I have the same material on a remote host over an SSH connection, and most of the time I end up editing one version, and sometimes the two versions go out of sync.

I have tried to use Gftp for transferring files, but found it messy, I would like to develop a script such that it downloads the file listing on the remote directory (recursively) and compares it with the local directory recursively, and ensures that the latest version is there in both places.

Is it possible to use sftp in any way ?

Have you already considered rsync?

Code:

man rsync

Fully agree , rsync (maybe over ssh) is the solution.

Perhaps it would be worth starting an account with bitbucket.org so you have a single copy of the code, available anywhere.

Of course rsync would work ok, but if you are learning to become a Linux professional you are going to end up using a version control system anyway.

Bitbucket is free and then someone else is responsible for keeping your code safe, and they are pretty likely to have more robust computers at their disposal than you do anyhow.

Hello,

Rsync s working quite well for me.. I will mark this thread as solved....!