Ubuntu – Copy file to same directory with appended filename Via SSH Bash Script

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How would I copy a batch of files into the same directory with an appended filename via SSH Bash Script?
For example.

/path/files/file /path/files/file-20120105

The trick is for it to be a one liner so I don't have to do any fancy for loop or some other mechanism to pass it via ssh.

Best Answer

You can do

cp /path/files/file /path/files/file-$(date +%Y%m%d)

To do the same for multiple files e direcories:

timestamp=$(date +%Y%m%d)
for f in /path/files/*; do
    cp -a "$f" "$f-$timestamp"
done

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You can use scp to upload your files to the remote machine into a separate directory, then ssh into the machine and just use cp command to copy the files from one directory to another, with something like.

cp -R /path/to/FOLDER1/* /path/to/FOLDER2

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Walk over the files, create an associative array over the uuids contained in their names (I used parameter expansion to extract the uuid). The, read the list, check the associative array for each uuid and report whether the file was recorded or not.

#!/bin/bash
uuid_list=...

declare -A file_for
for file in *_*_* ; do
    uuid=${file%%_*}
    file_for[$uuid]=1
done

while read -r uuid name ; do
    [[ $uuid = \#* ]] && continue
    if [[ ${file_for[$uuid]} ]] ; then
        echo "File for $name has arrived."
    else
        echo "File for $name missing!"
    fi
done < "$uuid_list"

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