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Author: Michael Havens
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: merge documents with scp
your great ET.I figured out that to do it rsync <file x> <file y>. I just
had to realize that '<user>@<address>:' is just part of the file name

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Michael Havens <> wrote:

> 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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>>>>>> (480) 559.9681
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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