Ok, I just realized that I sent this to the list with a gigantic syntax
error in my run command (missing a # in front of #{@destination_file}). My
apologies if I wasted anyone's time :/
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Christopher Opena
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Ok, this seems like a rather silly question because of its simplicity, but
> is there a prescribed methodology for having a given server copy a file to
> itself in another location? I know the file transfer actions get(), put(),
> upload(), etc. are used to manage Capistrano <=> server file transfers, but
> how about a simple copy of a server-local file to itself? I did a simple
> test like this:
>
> task :test_local_file_copy, :roles => [:app], :only => {:primary => true}
> do
> @source_file = "/tmp/this_copy"
> @destination_file = "/tmp/this_copy2"
> puts "Running command 'cp #{@source_file} #{@destination_file}'."
> run "cp #{@source_file} {@destination_file}", :roles => [:app],
> :only => {:primary => true}
> run "hostname"
> end
>
> Which as expected gave me the following output (no errors):
>
> Running command 'cp /tmp/this_copy /tmp/this_copy2'.
> ** [out :: [email protected]] myserver.mydomain.com
>
> However, the file does not exist in /tmp/ as I was hoping. I even threw
> in a 'hostname' to make sure that run commands were executing on
> myserver.mydomain.com (this is a local VM running CentOS 6 that I'm using
> /etc/hosts to manage ip connectivity to).
>
> I ran the command (copy and paste) manually while logged in as test_user
> over ssh, and it worked fine. Is there something about Capistrano that
> requires a different copy methodology?
>
> Details:
> ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [universal-darwin12.0]
> Capistrano v2.11.2
>
> TIA
>
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