[ale] Question about scripts

[Chuck Payne]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Scott McBrien<smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about using the -v option to cp?
>
> -Scott
>
> On Jul 17, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I need to copy a dir with a lot of files, and I want to make sure I
>> get them all, but I can't get my script to write to my log, any clues
>> how I can get to work? Also how I can get to dump to one line per
>> file?
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> touch /var/log/copyfiles.log
>>
>> dircopy="/vhosts/pictures/vikram"
>> dirremote="/media1"
>>
>> while true ; do
>> echo "`cp -R $dircopy/*  $dirremote `" >> /var/log/copyfiles.log
>> done
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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I was using copy because of laziness, but I am going to use rsync not.
Thanks for the quick asnwers guys.

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