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[[!meta title="Cdist: How to copy a folder recursively"]]
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## Introduction
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This article describes one solution to transfer a folder
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and all of its contents recursively with [[cdist|software/cdist]]
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to target hosts. I am motivated to do so, because I want to have one
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central place to configure the tftproot that I may use on a variety
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of KVM hosts.
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Traditionally, it is not an easy job to handle recursive transfer correctly
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and efficiently in a configuration management system. Using a sophisticated
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tool like [rsync](http://rsync.samba.org/) or
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[unison](http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) makes life
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usually way easier.
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If you just have a minor number of files, like I have in this case,
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doing a recursive copy with cdist may be the easist way.
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## Copying the files recursively
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Cdist knows about the types **\_\_file** and **\_\_directory** for
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file transfer and directory management.
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The type **\_\_nico\_tftp\_root**,
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which can be found in the
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[cdist-nico git repository](http://git.schottelius.org/?p=cdist-nico)
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(below **cdist/conf/type**) recursively copies all files it contains to
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the folder **/home/service/tftp**. Only when a file is changed, it
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is transferred again (the **\_\_file** type takes care of this).
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## The manifest
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In cdist, a manifest of a type defines, which other types to use.
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A manifest file is essentially shell code that can call other
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cdist types.
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To accomplish the task, first of all the base directory is created
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on the remote site:
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basedir=/home/services/tftp
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__directory "$basedir" --mode 0755
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Afterwards, I change into the source directory
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and find all files. Cdist exports the
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variable "__type" to access the folder in which the type is stored.
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cd "$__type/files"
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for file in $(find . | sed 's;./;;' | grep -v '^\.$' ); do
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The grep command is needed, to skip the current directory, that is returned
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by find.
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Now, for every file I determine the remote file name. Furthermore
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dependencies to the required directories are setup:
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You can **require** another type to be run before a type, by setting
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up the **require** environment variable (this will be changed in cdist
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2.1. and replaced in 2.2, but there is still some time until this happens).
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The remote name is constructed by this line:
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name="$basedir/$file"
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And the requirement is setup using this line:
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# Require the previous directory in the path
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export require="__directory/${name%/*}"
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The shell (!) knows about string manipulation: ${variablename%/\*} replaces
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the shortest matching suffix that equals "/\*". And thus the previous
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statement removes the last part of the path (also known as dirname).
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If the file found by find is a file, we call the \_\_file type,
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if the file is actually a directory, the \_\_directory type is called:
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if [ -d "$file" ]; then
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__directory "$name" --mode 0755
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else
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__file "$basedir/$file" --source "$__type/files/$file" \
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--mode 0644
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fi
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done
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And that's it - a full recursive copy with just a bunch of lines.
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## Further Reading
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* [[cdist|software/cdist]]
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* [cdist-nico git repository](http://git.schottelius.org/?p=cdist-nico)
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* [manifest of __nico_tftp_root](http://git.schottelius.org/?p=cdist-nico;a=blob;f=cdist/conf/type/__nico_tftp_root/manifest;h=b312210d878b30e5871751d62cea14172f63c756;hb=HEAD)
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[[!tag cdist config unix]]
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