Bash script to scp newest file in a directory on a remote server

bash cron backup scp database-backups
beatbreaker picture beatbreaker · Nov 6, 2010 · Viewed 10.6k times · Source

Ok so I kinda know how to do this locally with a find then cp command, but don't know how to do the same remotely with scp.

So know this:

scp -vp me@server:/target/location/ /destination/dir/.

That target directory is going to be full of database backups, how can I tell it to find the latest backup, and scp that locally?

Answer

DigitalRoss picture DigitalRoss · Nov 6, 2010 
remote_dir=/what/ever
dst=remote-system.host.name.com
scp $dst:`ssh $dst ls -1td $remote_dir/\* | head -1` /tmp/lastmod

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