[rsync rename] Rsync set of files then rename #bash #file_operations

rsync_rename.sh

#!/bin/bash
# script to rsync then move load of files, quicker than individual scp
# usage: bash rsync_rename.sh files.txt
# where files.txt is a pipe-separated file of <remote_path>|<local_path_to_move_to>
input_file=$1
files_to_rsync=$(cut "-d|" -f1 $input_file)
echo $files_to_rsync | tr " " "\n" | rsync -arvzh --progress [email protected]:/ /tmp --files-from=- 
cat $input_file | while IFS='|' read src dest; do
src="/tmp${src}"
mkdir -p "$(dirname "${dest}")"
cp $src $dest
done