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Re: rsync question



Curtis Vaughan:
> I need to rsync several, but not all, the Maildir directories under /home.
> I have a file with all the user accounts, so what would the script be to 
> say take each user account name and then rsync up each Maildir directory.
> 
> The rsync command would be:
> 
> rsync -arv ./[username]/Maildir/ root@[computer]:/home/[username]/Maildir/
> 
> I have already gone through each user's directory and manually done each 
> one over the course of the week. Now I want to be able to sink up using a 
> single command.

for user in alice bob mallory; do 
  rsync -arv ./${user}/Maildir/ root@[computer]:/home/${user}/Maildir/
done

J.
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