The accepted answer is no good. The question describes an issue with synced folders, not shared folders. The proposed solution would have no effect on an rsynced (not shared) folder. And even if the OP was using a shared folder, the accepted answer’s suggestion is something that had already been integrated into vagrant as of … Read more
You are passing your option list as a single argument, when it needs to be passed as a list of arguments. In general, you should use an array in bash to hold your arguments, in case any of them contain whitespace. Try the following: mkdir -p “/backup/$HOST/$NAME/$TODAY” #source directory SRC=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22030280/$MNT” #link directory LNK=”/backup/$HOST/$NAME/$LAST/” #target directory … Read more
If you have more than the last leaf directory to be created, you can either run a separate ssh … mkdir -p first, or use the –rsync-path trick as explained here : rsync -a –rsync-path=”mkdir -p /tmp/x/y/z/ && rsync” $source user@remote:/tmp/x/y/z/ Or use the –relative option as suggested by Tony. In that case, you only … Read more
You didn’t supply any code for us to look at, but here’s a sample that does something similar to what you describe: import threading import subprocess class MyClass(threading.Thread): def __init__(self): self.stdout = None self.stderr = None threading.Thread.__init__(self) def run(self): p = subprocess.Popen(‘rsync -av /etc/passwd /tmp’.split(), shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) self.stdout, self.stderr = p.communicate() myclass = MyClass() … Read more
The shell parses quotes before expanding variables, so putting quotes in a variable’s value doesn’t do what you expect — by the time they’re in place, it’s too late for them to do anything useful. See BashFAQ #50: I’m trying to put a command in a variable, but the complex cases always fail! for more … Read more