Re: Project web site was gone for a while

[James W. W. <os...@jw...>]

On Jun 13, 2004, at 2:03 PM, Dair Grant wrote:

> Actually, it does - there isn't any standard support for doing an
> automatic update, so I knocked something together:

OK, I hadn't thought the problem through carefully enough...


> ---------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # Check out the current source
> cd ~/tmp
> rm -fR quesa
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs1:/cvsroot/quesa -Q export -Dtomorrow
> quesa/Documentation
>
>
> # Replace the web site
> cd /home/groups/q/qu/quesa/htdocs
> rm -fR *
> mv ~/tmp/quesa/Documentation/* .
>
>
> # Clean out the temp directory
> cd ~/tmp
> rm -fR quesa
> ---------------------------------

What if instead of doing rm and mv you did cp -R -f?  Would that be 
safer?  Granted it wouldn't remove obsolete files and directories, but 
we don't remove things very often.
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