On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:42:38AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> mdh wrote:
> >--- On Sat, 10/11/08, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On the Ubuntu computer I am /home/kline; on my main
> >>computer,
> >> my home is /usr/home/kline. The following sh script
> >>worked
> >> perfected when my home on "tao" [FBSD] was
> >>/home/kline:
> >>
> >>P
> >>#!/bin/sh
> >>
> >>PWD=`pwd`;
> >>echo "This directory is [${PWD}]";
> >>
> >>scp -qrp ${PWD}/* ethos:/${PWD}
> >>###/usr/bin/scp -rqp -i /home/kline/.ssh/zeropasswd-id
> >>${PWD}/* \ klin
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/${PWD}
> >>
> >> Question #1: is there any /bin/sh method of getting rid of
> >>the
> >> "/usr"? I switch off between my two computers
> >>especially when
> >> get mucked up, as with my upgrade to kde4. (Otherwise, I
> >>do
> >> backups of ~kline as well as other critical directories.)
> >>
> >> Is there a way of automatically using rsync rather that my
> >> kwik-and-dirty /bin/shell script?
> >>
> >> thanks, people,
> >>
> >> gary
> >
> >If what you wish to do is simply get rid of /usr in a string, you can use
> >sed like so:
> >varWithoutUsr=`echo ${varWithUsr} |sed -e 's/\/usr//'`
> >After running this, where $varWithUsr is the variable containing a string
> >like "/usr/home/blah", the variable $varWithoutUsr will be equal to
> >"/home/blah". I create simple scripts like this all the time to rename
> >batches of files, for example.
> >The easier way is probably just to not specify a dir to scp's remote path
> >though, since it defaults to the user's home directory.
>
> Or, in anything resembling Bourne shell:
>
> varWithoutUsr=${varWithUsr#/usr}
I'll be damrned! It works--I've used the zsh for almost 20
years; it's a ksh clone++. How, may I ask, does this work?
(I've seen ksh chopping from the RHS; I wrote a short C util to
axe any part of a string, but have never seen *this* voodoo.
LOL++)
In any event, merci infiniement!
gary
PS: this will save my rsync scripts too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
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