Need help with rsync on local machine

[Lain]

Hello,

I would like to synchronize several files (from separate folders) and different folders to one single directory. It seems too tedious to specify each file and directory in a single rsync command, so I was wondering if anyone has a script, where I can simply list the paths to each file and directory I want to sync. And I'm doing this all on a local machine, so I don't need to worry about ssh.

Thanks,
Lain

[Ben Cotton]

Are you looking for something like this?

#!/bin/csh -f

# Target directory
set target='/home/myself/target'

# Source directories
set sources='/home/myself/source1 /home/myself/source2 /usr/local/etc/monkeys'

foreach s ( $sources )
  rsync -av $s $target
end

If I understand what you're wanting, that should do the trick. Of course, you can give rsync different options to tweak how it behaves (see `man rsync`)