APGT Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

The rsync scipts will be in the next edition of A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming! The author and I go way back... ;)

Anyway, its (again) a handy utility. My roommate used to play all 90's music (and not the good stuff) on his Mac. The rsync utility comes default in Mac OS X (not to say that it didn't before...) so it wasn't too hard to write a script to sync up his iTunes with my music database:


rsync \
-av \
--compress \
--port=[redacted for security :P] \
--stats \
--exclude=Movies \
--exclude=Podcasts \
carter@192.168.1.110:'/media/disk/My\ Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/' \
'/Volumes/External Space/Music/Music_from_Max/'


So there -- taking the music from my disk (its only in iTunes so when I boot Vista it syncs up with my iPhone... Vista? iPhone? now I'm embarrassed...) and putting it on his disk. There are a few issues we ran in to. First of all, his username is capitalized on the Mac -- Carter -- and lowercase on my computer. So thats why, even though its almost the same user, we have carter@192... . Also, the port=### option doesn't seem to work on rsync on the Mac. I run ssh on a non-standard port, but even with the --port= option it kept defaulting to 22. So, we edited /etc/ssh/ssh_config and put my port in there. Also, we're doing this with rsa keys so the script could run on a crontab! Then, every time I download music from this millenium, he would get it.

Finally. No more Red Hot Chili Peppers.