Peter, You can use download to grab a directory tree as well, but not a glob. However, it is a LOT slower than simply creating a tgz file on the server and downloading that.
download "/opt/nginx/conf", "existing/$CAPISTRANO:HOST$" - Jamis On Oct 8, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Peter Booth wrote: > First: Capistrano is awesome, it is for sysadmin like regex is to > text processing . > > Clearly something where the benefits increase geometrically with > experience. > > Second: is there a way to download a directory tree or glob? > > A scenario might be retrieving configuration files that were never > committed to svn. > The following works for individual files: > > role :web, "ws1","ws2","ws3" > task :collect_existing, :roles => :web do > download "/opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf", "existing/$CAPISTRANO:HOST$/ > conf/nginx.conf" > end > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
