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patrick_
patrick_

Reputation: 166

smbclient script putting several files with variable

I want to put a whole directory that contains pdf files on another server with a smbclientscript. My script: 

    #Set variable for reports
variable=`ls | grep pdf`

smbclient -U "server\user"%pw //some/direc/tory/bla/bla << Commands
cd to/another/dir
put $variable
exit
Commands

It actually works, but the problem ist that it can only copy the first file that is listet bei ls | grep pdf. For the other Files the shell responds with file:command not found.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2748

Answers (2)

patrick_
patrick_

Reputation: 166

I got the solution be myself:

cd /directory/with/files/to/copy
#Set Variable
reports=$(ls *)
for i in $reports ; do

    smbclient -U "srv\User"%pws //some/dir/bla/bla/bla << Commands
    cd another/dir/etc
    put $i
    exit
    Commands
    done

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

catssay
catssay

Reputation: 106

In bash

variable=`ls |grep pdf`

will get a string variable with STDOUT, not an array. It's no what you want.

Maybe xargs will help you. You can do as follows, but not an elegant solution I think.

ls | grep '.pdf$' |xargs -I{} smbclient -U "server\user"%pw //some/direc/tory/bla/bla -D 'to/another/dir' -c "{}"

Upvotes: 1

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