russellchamp
November 28th, 2006, 10:08 PM
Bash scripting is fun! I even took a class at the local community college on "Linux Scripts and Tools" but I never really had a chance to USE the knowledge.
Here's a nifty script to monitor large file transfers. I wrote it because I was transferring a lot of data from my external hard drive to my server and wanted to monitor where it was at. I only have USB 1 on the server and I was transferring around 150GB of data so I found it quite useful!
I'd like some feedback on my work. I'm still a newb at bash scripting so I'm sure there are multiple "better" or more efficient ways to do this...
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#showtransfer v5
#written by Russell Champoux on 11/27/2006
#the purpose is to see the current transfer status between two directories
#option -f: displays the "full" second directory layer of items being transfered
#first argument is the directory copied FROM
#the second argument is the directory being copied TO
#NOTE: the script "breaks" if there are more files in the "coppied to" directory than the "coppied from directory"
clear
full=0
while getopts ":f:" Option
do
case $Option in
f ) full=1;;
* ) full=0;;
esac
done
if [ $full -eq 1 ]
then
shift 1
fi
fromdir=$1
todir=$2
echo Files transfered from : $fromdir
echo Files transfered to : $todir
cd $fromdir
for dir in *
do
done=`ls -l "$todir"/"$dir" 2> /dev/null | wc -l`
if [ -d "$todir"/"$dir" ]
then
done=$(($done - 1))
fi
outof=`ls -l "$fromdir"/"$dir" 2> /dev/null | wc -l`
if [ -d "$fromdir"/"$dir" ]
then
outof=$(($outof - 1))
fi
echo $done of $outof files transfered to $dir
if [ $full -eq 1 ]
then
if [ -d "$fromdir"/"$dir" ]
then
cd "$fromdir"/"$dir"
for subdir in *
do
subdone=`ls -l "$todir"/"$dir"/"$subdir" 2> /dev/null | wc -l`
suboutof=`ls -l "$fromdir"/"$dir"/"$subdir" 2> /dev/null | wc -l`
echo \*\*\* $subdone of $suboutof files transfered to $subdir
done
fi
echo
fi
done
echo
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Once again, if you look at this, tell me what you think. Cool? Crap? Useful? Pointless? Tell me what it is you're thinking.
Here's a nifty script to monitor large file transfers. I wrote it because I was transferring a lot of data from my external hard drive to my server and wanted to monitor where it was at. I only have USB 1 on the server and I was transferring around 150GB of data so I found it quite useful!
I'd like some feedback on my work. I'm still a newb at bash scripting so I'm sure there are multiple "better" or more efficient ways to do this...
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#showtransfer v5
#written by Russell Champoux on 11/27/2006
#the purpose is to see the current transfer status between two directories
#option -f: displays the "full" second directory layer of items being transfered
#first argument is the directory copied FROM
#the second argument is the directory being copied TO
#NOTE: the script "breaks" if there are more files in the "coppied to" directory than the "coppied from directory"
clear
full=0
while getopts ":f:" Option
do
case $Option in
f ) full=1;;
* ) full=0;;
esac
done
if [ $full -eq 1 ]
then
shift 1
fi
fromdir=$1
todir=$2
echo Files transfered from : $fromdir
echo Files transfered to : $todir
cd $fromdir
for dir in *
do
done=`ls -l "$todir"/"$dir" 2> /dev/null | wc -l`
if [ -d "$todir"/"$dir" ]
then
done=$(($done - 1))
fi
outof=`ls -l "$fromdir"/"$dir" 2> /dev/null | wc -l`
if [ -d "$fromdir"/"$dir" ]
then
outof=$(($outof - 1))
fi
echo $done of $outof files transfered to $dir
if [ $full -eq 1 ]
then
if [ -d "$fromdir"/"$dir" ]
then
cd "$fromdir"/"$dir"
for subdir in *
do
subdone=`ls -l "$todir"/"$dir"/"$subdir" 2> /dev/null | wc -l`
suboutof=`ls -l "$fromdir"/"$dir"/"$subdir" 2> /dev/null | wc -l`
echo \*\*\* $subdone of $suboutof files transfered to $subdir
done
fi
echo
fi
done
echo
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Once again, if you look at this, tell me what you think. Cool? Crap? Useful? Pointless? Tell me what it is you're thinking.