Hi, I am trying to create a script whose objective is to iterate inside a directory on a server and go looking for a folder called local_backup and copy the content for my local computer to the Downloads directory, when I get to this step the script shows me an error that it does not have permission…

Maybe I misunderstood the code. But surely your mkdir and cp commands are running on the Server, but attempting to mkdir and cp on your Local machine. Is anything mounting the other's filesystem somewhere? I would expect to see scp, or maybe ssh tar -c | tar -x, somewhere. I am also concerned about…

A problem is that the remote script is in the local " " context, so all remote $ and " and \ must be \escaped. And local $ expressions must not be escaped. [image] jorge: [ -n "\$backup_file" ] should be [ -n \"\$backup_file\" ] There should be no \ at the end of the lines. If you reall…

[image] Paul_Pedant: your mkdir and cp commands are running on the Server, but attempting to mkdir and cp on your Local machine Not quite correct. Only the $LOCAL_DIR is locally evaluated/substituted; the result runs remotely. But your perception might be right i.e. a scp is intended or the…

I could have expressed that better. But failing to create a directory called /home/jorge/Downloads/whatever on a server with mkdir -p, and getting permission errors, suggests it failed to create /home/jorge, as anything below that would most likely have the required permissions. /home is of course o…

[image] Paul_Pedant: would expect to see scp, or maybe ssh tar -c | tar -x, somewhere. My observation is similar. [image] jorge: what am I doing wrong ? You're (probably) trying to mix locally executed commands with remotely executed commands in a single block of code for ssh. If mkd…

I think my issue is that I don't know what "local" means here. You have a "Local PC" (we don't know what distro is on there), and a "Server" (also unknown distro). The server has multiple directories within "/home/master/applications", each of which may have a subdirectory called "local_backup" in …

I think the find comnand has the wrong startdir; the -maxdepth 1 won't descend to local_backups/ So it should be find \$dir/local_backups -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'backup_*' -print -quit But that's problem #2 (BTW -quit exits after the first file.)

Good catch on the maxdepth. I had to look up find -quit, but that first can still be misleading. find lists names in the order it sees them in the directory, which varies by file system and by creation order. So backup_zzz can still be listed before backup_aaa. I was thrown by the first ssh merely…

The following script does all in one ssh. A remote script is passed through the ssh stdin to the remote /bin/bash, as was previously suggested by @Paul_Pedant It downloads a tar stream to the local computer via the ssh stdout, as suggested by @Paul_Pedant The tar cf - in the remote script writes …

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rachelgreen May 10, 2024, 8:04am 10

thanks for the info