My first thought is, why aren't you doing it with just one rsync call like:

rsync -avHp --progress subdir1 subdir2 subdir3 [email protected]:www/

If it's because your example doesn't directly reflect your situation, as in your are needing to copy into several different destination directories, you will just need to setup a shared key for ssh and copy the public key over to the destinations authorized_keys file. Once you have done that, you can copy over to the destination without any passwords at all if you want.

Brian Cluff

On 08/15/2010 01:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:

How can one do two or more rsyncs with entering the password just once?

I've set up a script that I named copy2blue to copy three specified
subdirectories to my web hosted space, and it works fine, except it
asks me to enter the password for each 'rsync' command.

How can I modify this so it will only ask for the password once?

cd /dir/subdir1
rsync -avHp --progress subdir1 [email protected]:www/subdir1/

cd /dir/subdir2
rsync -avHp --progress subdir2 [email protected]:www/subdir2/

cd /dir/subdir3
rsync -avHp --progress subdir3 [email protected]:www/subdir3/
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