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Garrett Michael Gritz Stelly
Garrett Michael Gritz Stelly

Reputation: 55

Updating a website through SSH

I'm only partially familiar with shell and my command line, but I understand the usage of * when uploading and downloading files.

My question is this: If I have updated multiple files within my website's directory on my local device, is there some simple way to re-upload every file and directory through the put command to just update every single file and place files not previously there?

I'd imagine that i'd have to somehow put */ (to put all of the directories) put * (to put all of the files) and change permissions accordingly It may also be in my best interests to first clear the directory to I have a true update, but then there's the problem of resetting all permissions for every file and directory. I would think it would work in a similar manner, but I've had problems with it and I do not understand the use of the -r recursive option.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 906

Answers (1)

GhostCat
GhostCat

Reputation: 140427

Basically such functionality is perfected within the rsync tool. And that tool can also be used in a "secure shell way"; as lined out in this tutorial.

As an alternative, you could also look into sshfs. That is a utility that allows you to "mount" a remote file system (using ssh) in your local system. So it would be completely transparent to rsync that it is syncing a local and a remote file system; for rsync, you would just be syncing to different directories!

Long story short: don't even think about implementing such "sync" code yourself. Yes, rsync itself requires some studying, as many unix tools it is extremely powerful; thus you have to be very diligent when using it. But thing is: this is a robust, well tested tool. The time required to learn about it will pay out pretty quickly.

Upvotes: 3

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