Autoscp

A helper script to automatically upload local files to a remote location when they are changed locally.

Basic Usage:

$ python autoscp --help

usage: autoscp [-h] [-c] [--host HOST] [--root ROOT] [--identity-file I]
           folders [folders ...]

Automatic Remtoe SCP On Local File Change

positional arguments:
    folders            The folders to upload to remote host

optional arguments:
    -h, --help         show this help message and exit
    -c, --create       Upload Everything On Start
    --host HOST        The remote host to SCP to
    --root ROOT        The remote root directory to SCP to
    --identity-file I  The absolute path to your pem key

You can specify your default values within the scipt itself, or override these with the command line arguments:

REMOTE_HOST_DEFAULT  = '[email protected]'
REMOTE_ROOT_DEFAULT  = '/path/to/remote/dir'
ABSOULTE_PEM_DEFAULT = '/path/to/your/local/pemfile'

Usage:

$ python autoscp --host=ubuntu@some_ec2_public_dns --root=/home/ubuntu/ /home/fin/my_dir/ 

Include List:

Append regex strings into this array to include files.

includes = ['*'] # Edit this to include files: Note: for files only

Exclude List:

Append regex strings into this array to exclude files or folders.

excludes = ['*/.git', '*.pyc'] # Exclude List for dirs and files

Notes:

Relative paths are currently not handled well within the autoscp script (work in progress) so use absolute paths.

For Example:

$ python autoscp ./this_dir/ 

Will not work correctly, paths specified by ~ should work however this hasn't been tested yet.

Secondly, SCP will not recursively create directories, so if you create a file within a new sub-directory which does not currently exist remotely the upload will fail. Specifying the -c flag will circumnavigate this at the minor cost of a one of ssh mkdir command.