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how to zip up your /Users/Shared directories to iCloud
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download.sh
# this will only download what is there already
find ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ -maxdepth 1 -name "*.zip" -type f | \
while read -r zipfile; do \
if [[ ! -f "/Users/Shared/$(basename "$zipfile")" ]]; \
then echo "Copying $(basename "$zipfile")..." && cp "$zipfile" /Users/Shared/; \
fi; \
done;
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fwsatch_and_copy.sh
# watches for new zip files down if they do not exist
fswatch -o ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ | \
find ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ -maxdepth 1 -name "*.zip" -type f | \
while read -r zipfile; do \
if [[ ! -f "/Users/Shared/$(basename "$zipfile")" ]]; \
then echo "Copying $(basename "$zipfile")..." && cp "$zipfile" /Users/Shared/; \
fi; \
done;
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upload.sh
cd /Users/Shared && for dir in */; do echo "Zipping $dir..." && ditto -c -k --sequesterRsrc "$dir" ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/"${dir%/}.zip"; done
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