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Author: Michael Havens
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: merge documents with scp
ahhhhh heck. that was simple.

rsync -av ~/ <user2>@address2>/home/xyz

But still.... it takes a long time to finish. Oh I get it..... I forgot to
empty my trash!

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:

> I just thought of something the only thing different about the two is the
> last digit. say xyz1 and xyz2. Could I do something like '
>
> rsync -aHv <user1>@<address1>:/home/xyz*/ /home/xy*
> <user2>@address2>/home/xyz*
>
> ??????????????????????????????????
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
>> boy am I lucky.... I didn't run out of room. okay.... I need to rsync two
>> /home directories. The thing is the two directories are named differently
>> at the top. one is /home/x and one is /home/y I want everything under x to
>> look like y. I looked in the man page and I thought I found something but
>> then I looked on and couldn't find it again to investigate further. I
>> thought it was in the 'running as a daemon' section but I couldn't find it
>> again.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 4:18 AM, <
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> how would I rsync just what has been modified?
>>>>
>>>
>>> If I interpret this question as:
>>> 'how would rsync know just what has been modified?'
>>> The answer is: it depends.
>>> rsync will compare timestamps unless you use the --checksum option.
>>> RTFM...
>>> If I interpret this question as:
>>> 'how would I know just what rsync has updated?'
>>> You don't, you trust rsync.
>>> I you don't trust rsync (I don't), you can run it twice with the
>>> --checksum option (I do) or you can:
>>> ssh user@box 'cd my-path;find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;|sort' >
>>> /tmp/remote.md5
>>> cd my-path;find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;|sort > /tmp/local.md5
>>> sdiff -s /tmp/remote.md5 /tmp/local.md5
>>> Ang get your banana... :)
>>> Good luck...
>>> ET
>>> PS: Free advice, you can't sue me... :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael Havens writes:
>>>
>>>> thanks. this is takling a long time..... how would I rsync just what
>>>> has
>>>> been modified?
>>>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Nathan England <>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> **
>>>>>
>>>>> You need to use rsync
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> rsync -av /path/to/localfile user@remotehost:/path/to/**remotefile
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> or alternatively
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> rsync -av user@remotehost:/path/to/**remotefile /path/to/localfile
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, April 27, 2012 13:46:40 Michael Havens wrote:
>>>>> thanks for the quick responses.... what I meant is like to have
>>>>> duplicate
>>>>> files on two systems and then make the files the same.
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Carruth, Rusty <
>>>>> Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.**com<>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Fast answer:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ssh me@foosystem ‘cat the_Remote_file’ >> localfile
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Explanation:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>                On system ‘foosystem’ (as me), cat the file.  On this
>>>>> system, append that stream of bytes to ‘localfile’.

>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Should you want to ‘tail –f’ the file on ‘foosystem’, change ‘cat’ to
>>>>> ‘tail –f’. (Or grep, or …)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Rusty
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.**plug.phoenix.az.us<>[mailto:
>>>>> plug-discuss-bounces@lists.**plug.phoenix.az.us<>]
>>>>> On Behalf Of Michael Havens
>>>>> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:05 PM
>>>>> To: Main PLUG discussion list
>>>>> Subject: merge documents with scp
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> is there a way to tell scp to add any appended text to an existing
>>>>> document? (that's called 'merge', right?)
>>>>> --
>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>>>>> --
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>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Nathan England
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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