finds all the undownloaded iCloud Drive files and downloads them

download_icloud_drive.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# Finds all the undownloaded iCloud Drive files in the supplied 
# path and uses brctl to download each one.
#
# This is a workaround for a problem I'm having trying to download 
# directories full of undownloaded iCloud Drive files. Ideally, you'd
# just be able to run `brctl download PATH` and be done with it. 
# (Try that first, actually.)
#

if [ "x$1" == x ]
then
  echo usage: $0 PATH >&2
  exit 1
fi

find "$1" -name .\*.icloud | grep -v '^\.Trash$' | (
  while read fullpath
  do
    dir=$(dirname "${fullpath}")
    file=$(basename -s .icloud "${fullpath}" | cut -c 2-)
    echo ${fullpath} '=>' ${dir}/${file}
    brctl download "${dir}/${file}"
  done
)