#!/bin/sh # Wrap "dbxcli get" command to download files from a dropbox dir # Solves https://github.com/dropbox/dbxcli/issues/60 # # Published at https://gist.github.com/shadiakiki1986/c22fa50523dc7f80ceda6b940358eedf # # Tested on # dbxcli version: v2.1.1 # SDK version: 4.5.0 # Spec version: a1d5111 set -e # abort script on error in dbxcli ls call if [ -z "$1" ] | [ -z "$2" ]; then echo "Missing arguments" echo "Usage dbxcli-getdir path/to/source/on/dropbox path/to/target/on/local" exit 1 fi if [ ! -d "$2" ]; then echo "Target directory $2 does not exist. Aborting" exit 2 fi SOURCE=$1 TARGET=$2 echo "Downloading files from '$SOURCE' to '$TARGET'" # test ls to abort if inexistant folder dbxcli ls -l "$SOURCE" # execute dbxcli ls -l "$SOURCE"|grep ago|awk -F"ago" "{print \$2}"|sed -e "s/^[[:space:]]*//" -e "s/[[:space:]]*$//"|xargs -I{} dbxcli get {} $TARGET echo "Download complete"