movein.sh - Nice little "move in" script from O'Reilly's excellent Linux Server Hacks book.

movein.sh

#!/bin/sh
# movein.sh - shamelessly stolen from O'Reilly's excellend "Linux Server Hacks"
# http://oreilly.com/pub/h/72
# Version 0.2 - Added some comments and error checking

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Usage: `basename $0` hostname"
    exit
fi

if [ ! -d ~/.skel ]; then
    echo "No ~/.skel directory was found.  Please create it and add symlinks (or copies) of any files you want to be included."
    exit 1
fi

# Here's the magic, this tars everything in ~/.skel up and pushes it out to the remote machine.
# Be careful to make sure there's nothing in ~/.skel that you don't want on the remote host!
cd ~/.skel
tar zhcf - . | ssh $1 "tar zpvxf -"