I have a directory on my local machine that I would like to copy to a remote machine (and rename it) using Fabric. I know I can copy file using put()
, but what about a directory. I know it's easy enough using scp, but I would prefer to do it from within my fabfile.py
if possible.
You can use put
for that as well (at least in 1.0.0):
local_path
may be a relative or absolute local file or directory path, and may contain shell-style wildcards, as understood by the Python glob module. Tilde expansion (as implemented by os.path.expanduser) is also performed.
See: http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.0.0/api/core/operations.html#fabric.operations.put
Update: This example works fine (for me) on 1.0.0.:
from fabric.api import env
from fabric.operations import run, put
env.hosts = ['[email protected]']
def copy():
# make sure the directory is there!
run('mkdir -p /home/frodo/tmp')
# our local 'testdirectory' - it may contain files or subdirectories ...
put('testdirectory', '/home/frodo/tmp')
# [[email protected]] Executing task 'copy'
# [[email protected]] run: mkdir -p /home/frodo/tmp
# [[email protected]] put: testdirectory/HELLO -> \
# /home/frodo/tmp/testdirectory/HELLO
# [[email protected]] put: testdirectory/WORLD -> \
# /home/frodo/tmp/testdirectory/WORLD
# ...