[Gllug] Flat rsync

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at workshy.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:13:03PM +0100, Jose wrote:
>> > Any ideas how best to do this?
>>
>> rsync everything to the 2nd machine, directory structure and all.
>>
>> in the second machine try something like this:
>> ---
>> #!/bin/ksh
>> find . -type f | while read file
>> do
>> mv "$file" /flat_directory
>> done
>> ---
>
> This still doesn't solve the problem of files with the same name.


I didn't say it would, I explicitly mentioned that such problem
required a bit more  scripting.

>  A safer way to handle that would be to take a list generated by find
> on the original host and then create a unique name for each destination
> file by, for example, taking the full pathname of the original file and
> replacing each directory separator by another character (e.g. _ and of
> course you'd have to escape any _ characters already in the path.) Then
> you could feed the list of sources and destinations to rsync or scp or
> whatever is appropriate.  It also has the benefit that you could
> recreate the original directory structure if desired.

You can get the file name expunged from $file , then with an if
statement check if the file exists, if it does rename one of them.

But I am all for knowing your data first. If you know there are no
repeat names you need a simpler script and forget about doing too much
checking.

Cheers.

>
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> Bruce
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