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rsync git modified files with awk and sed Feb 15

Need to rsync modified files to a server? Try the following:

All you need to do is ensure that the base path set properly and modify the user@remote.server.com portion of the script and you’re all set!

Explanation after the break.

Here’s the breakdown:

git
Display modified files the same way svn status does – line by line with a symbol in front to designate type of change.

  git status -s

This prints out the following:

 M www/path/to/file
 M www/another/path/to/file

awk
Piped with the git call above, this will strip out everything fron the line except for the file path.

  awk '{print $2}'

This prints out the following:

  www/path/to/file
  www/another/path/to/file

sed
With the file paths piped in via the awk command, add the rsync around it with sed.

  sed 's/\(.*\)/rsync -cav \1 user@remote.server.com:~\/\1/'

This prints out the following:

  rsync -cav www/path/to/file user@remote.server.com:~/www/path/to/file
  rsync -cav www/another/path/to/file user@remote.server.com:~/www/another/path/to/file

sh
Finally, we pipe the sed call into sh which executes it.

  sh