macOS Unix Problem (copying specific folders)

[mikemike1234]

cd /home/web/dummy
for dir in *; do
   if [ -d ${dir}/testing ]; then
      ssh -l user otherhost "mkdir /home/manage/$dir
      scp -r ${dir}/testing hello@XYZ:/home/manage/$dir
   fi
done

What i am trying to do is copy specific folder by the name of testing to my other unix server. This is what my directory structure is in server ABC

/home/web/dummy/mike/images
/home/web/dummy/mike/source
/home/web/dummy/mike/testing

/home/web/dummy/john/images
/home/web/dummy/john/source
/home/web/dummy/john/testing

/home/web/dummy/alex/images
/home/web/dummy/alex/source

As you can see under dummy folders i have 3 different folders. But the folder which i am concern about is (testing) folder. So mike and john have testing , images and source folder. I would like to copy the parent directory which is john or mike and testing folder only to my XYZ server.

When i run my code the first time, it just copies the contents of testing folder without creating a testing folder. But when i ran the script second time everything works fine. Parent directory which is john or mike is copied to my XYZ server and testing folder is also copied under john and mike.

Can someone tell me what is going on? why my script is not creating the testing folder the first time ?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

For stuff like this I always explicitly create the directory first, after testing to see if it exists.

cd /home/web/dummy
for dir in *; do
   if [ -d ${dir}/testing ]; then
      ssh -l user otherhost "mkdir /home/manage/$dir"
      scp -r ${dir}/testing hello@XYZ:/home/manage/$dir
   fi
done

I don't know if a missing quote was causing problems at the end of the line that starts with ssh, but I added it.

 

[lexfuzo]

why not rsync?

like
rsync -e ssh -avz --include=*testing this/host other/host
or so

 

[mikemike1234]

Thanks dude. But that was a typo from my side that missing quote. Still same thing.

 

[mikemike1234]

rsync not possible

I am not the administrator of the machine. So i doubt if i can install rsync in there. Any other clues?