[ubuntu-za] Copying files

[Bill Cairns]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:52 PM, William Walter Kinghorn
<williamk at dut.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just found this article : http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/easy_file_sync_bitpocket
>
> William

Thanks William - looks good.

For what it is worth, I rediscovered Zenity the other day and wrote a
simple script to provide a graphical front end. Here it is:

 #!/bin/sh
#
#	copyu - a simple script providing a zenity front end to the cp -u dir1 dir2
#	command.
#
#	To do - some error checking to provide an exit if the operator cancels on the
#	file selection. (What happens now is that the cp statement is
invalid and gives
#	an error).
#
#	March 2012

	cd /home/bill/
        FILEF=`zenity --file-selection --title="Choose directory to
back up" --directory`
        echo "Copy from \"$FILEF\" "
	DIRT=`zenity --file-selection --title="Choose directory to copy to"
--directory`
	cp -uR $FILEF $DIRT
	cd -P