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Hi

I have searched all through google looking for what I thought should be quite a basic script and I am struggling. Basically we would like to copy a users home folder to a server so that we can then copy that on to their new Mac.

So far, I have got this working... cp -Rfvp /path/to/source /path/to/destination this works ok for folders within the home folder such as Document and Desktop but not for the actual Home folder itself, it seems to try to copy my trash can and then crash. I have also tried to put multiple copies into the same script but I don't think I have the syntax correct...

Example

cp -Rfvp /path/to/source/Desktop /path/to/destination
/path/to/source/Documents /path/to/destination
/path/to/source/Movies /path/to/destination

How do I put more than one move into the script?

Lastly... would something like this work?

#! /bin/bash
echo -n "Enter Home folder name"
read -e HOME
setterm -background $HOME
cp -Rfvp /path/to/source/users/$home/Desktop /path/to/destination/$HOME

I'm not very good at this but I have really tried to figure this out on my own, any help would be appreciated!

Mike

That's the idea, except

- setterm command is useless: it surely does not what you think
- don't mix lowercase and uppercase in commands and variables : $home is not $HOME
- if you have spaces in $HOME variable, use more quotes

If you have error messages, or the script does not what you want, please be precise.

friendly.

Actually not entirely true. Setting the variable "manually" like this will require quoting:


Using read this is not an issue, the input to read is directly put into the variable.


Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson

Try scp -r <directory name> <servername>:<directory> something like:

SERVER = 'servername'
echo "Directory name: "
D = read userdir

scp -r $D $SERVER:<new home directory>


or something like that...good luck!