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# 1  
Old 09-25-2008
Rsync to an external list of URLs
I'm going to have a text file formatted something like this:

Code:
some_name http://www.someurl.com/
another_name http://www.anotherurl.com/
third_name http://www.thirdurl.com/

I need to write a script that can rsync from a file path I'll set, to each URL in the list.

Any ideas?
# 2  
Old 09-25-2008
Post what have you tried so far and where exactly are you stuck?

Please read https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...om-forums.html before posting, especially 5 and 6.
# 3  
Old 09-25-2008
Re: the rules; it's not for homework, and I have searched but didn't find anything relating to this specific idea.

Frankly, I don't know where to start. I've been looking at Awk and at Bash itself, so far.
# 4  
Old 09-25-2008
First step is to read each address for file:
Code:
while read name URL
do
   # do something with that $URL but I don't belive you can rsync from url
done < url_file

.. and next you have to visit rsync and see what you can or you cannot do.
# 5  
Old 09-29-2008
OK, so I'm able to loop through the external file and read a line into a variable. (I'm working with Mac OS X.)

Code:
SRCURL="~/Desktop/listrsync/source/";
while read URL
do
	echo "$URL";
	echo "rsync -avz --dry-run $SRCURL $URL";
	rsync -avz --dry-run $SRCURL $URL;
done < ~/Desktop/listrsync/targets.txt

Within the targets.txt file, I have:

Code:
~/Desktop/listrsync/a/
~/Desktop/listrsync/b/
~/Desktop/listrsync/c/

When I run the script, it produces the output:

Code:
~/Desktop/listrsync/source/
~/Desktop/listrsync/a/
rsync -avz --dry-run ~/Desktop/listrsync/source/ ~/Desktop/listrsync/a/
~/Desktop/listrsync/b/
rsync -avz --dry-run ~/Desktop/listrsync/source/ ~/Desktop/listrsync/b/
~/Desktop/listrsync/c/
rsync -avz --dry-run ~/Desktop/listrsync/source/ ~/Desktop/listrsync/c/

As you'd said, the rsync command itself doesn't work when run from within the loop. I'm wondering, since I can get validly-formatted rsync commands from the output, is there a way to simply run them?

Maybe through piping?

Or a temp file?
# 6  
Old 09-29-2008
I just tried directing the output (valid rsync commands) to a temp file, and running the temp file as a script; and it worked. Is there a better way?
# 7  
Old 09-29-2008
Is there a way to get the line number from the while loop, or should I start a counter for that?
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