Re: Transfer group of directories through rsync

[Kerin Millar]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 01:30:35 +0000
hancooper via <help-bash@gnu.org> wrote:

> I have a group of directories stored in a bash array called `group`.
> 
> I want to use rsync to transfer the files to the same directory paths, but 
> instead of ./01cuneus, the destination is ./temp
> 
> I have a bash function that I use, called `myrsync` which takes the source 
> and destination parent directories and the depth
> level (that's why ones sees three levels down `./01cuneus` in array `group`) .
> 
> myrsync -j 3 --depth=3 --src=./01cuneus --dst=./temp
> 
> group: ./01cuneus/tdr/margi/03d-chmed-mrgn 
> ./01cuneus/freelic/latest/freelic-3.4 ./01cuneus/tdr/freelic/releases 
> ./01cuneus/books/Infocs/cvs ./01cuneus/histr/gen-adm/behistun 
> ./01cuneus/histr/gen-adm/uwdiving ./01cuneus/books/releases/survey 
> ./01cuneus/books/GeoMtk/survey--for--geosc ./01cuneus/books/pictures/jpg 
> ./01cuneus/books/Infocs/Gra ./01cuneus/tdr/ch-aggr/part2 
> ./01cuneus/histr/gen-adm/tdr ./01cuneus/tdr/margi/01d-mimic-mrgn 
> ./01cuneus/tdr/ideogr/06b-amcoh ./01cuneus/articles/detailed/infocs 
> ./01cuneus/articles/detailed/advoc ./01cuneus/tdr/margi/04d-inadq-mrgn 
> ./01cuneus/freelic/releases/freelic-1.0 ./01cuneus/tdr/margi/05d-wepst-mrgn

(
cd -- "$src" &&
rsync -aiR --from0 --files-from=<(printf '%s\0' "${group[@]#"$src/"}") . "$dst/"
)

-- 
Kerin Millar