SPUG: Quoting Question

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006, Asa Martin wrote:
>
>   Hi everyone,
>
>   Long-time lurker, infrequent poster, but I have this really annoying
>   quoting question. I'm writing a remote SSH script (but not using
>   Net::SSH so any solution can't utilize any special Net::SSH stuff). I
>   log into a remote system using ssh, read a file from the remote system
>   into memory, parse through it line by line, and on certain lines make
>   substitutions. Then I need to write the new file to the system. I am
>   trying to send the changed stuff to the new file using the echo
>   command, but it's not working very well.

I generally use rsync for this type of thing because (a) one can
easily restrict access to specific directories controlling access
by IP address, and (b) it doesn't require potentially dangerous
security issues when allowing passwordless unattended operations.

rsync remotesystem::remote_module/filename /tmp/filename
process filename
rsync /tmp/filename remotesystem::remote_module/filename

There are a variety of options to rsync that can be used to
insure safe copies (it generally creates a new file, renaming it
when done so that programs using it won't see a partial file).

Bill
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