From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-04-13T10:12:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Controlling an interactive program from Ruby

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:59:27 +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> I want to copy a large number of files from a remote location using scp.
> I already have a script that generates the entire list of files to copy, 
> and figures out where each one goes.  The problem is that these are spread 
> over 300 directories, and I don't want to type my password 300 times.
> 
> This is what I wantn to automate:
> 
> $ scp dcarrera@zeno:/data/tmp/filename some/directory/
> $ dcarrera@zeno's password:

Passwords are unsafe.. take a look at ssh-keys.


 
> It seems like I should be able to handle that with Ruby.

cat filelist | xargs scp ... 
mmm.. maybe


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Simon Strandgaard