automatically scp/run potd checkout script to ews

potd.sh

#!/bin/bash

# ian klatzco 6 september 2016, some modifcation thru the semester

# WARNING
# make sure you don't have more than the most recent checkout-potd-q*.py file in the directory you set up this script to run in, or else you're gonna have a bad time (multiple downloads of files you've already download, and i am not sure what's gonna happen to your old code)
# WILL WIPE ALL OLD POTD DOWNLOAD SCRIPTS

# ASSUMES
#   daily potd download script is dl'd to ~/Downloads
#   you store your potds in ~/cs225/potd on your ews account

NETID="NETID GOES HERE"

# USAGE
# first time:
# 	create ~/cs225/potd on remote
#	set your NETID above
#   chmod +x potd.sh
# then:
#   download daily potd checkout script.py
#	./potd.sh
# bonus: vim ~/.vimrc (locally) and add "alias potd="~/potd.sh"" or wherever you wanan keep potd.sh

# TODO
# only scp the most recently timestamped potd in local
# cd directly into the current potd's folder
# feel free to improve/send me a pull request for any of these

scp ~/Downloads/checkout-potd-q*.py $NETID@linux.ews.illinois.edu:~/cs225/potd # if this doesn't work, set $NETID to your actual netid

rm ~/Downloads/checkout-potd-q*.py # WILL DELETE ALL POTD DOWNLOAD SCRIPTS

ssh $NETID@linux.ews.illinois.edu "cd ~/cs225/potd ; python checkout-potd-q*.py && rm checkout-potd-q*.py"

ssh -t $NETID@linux.ews.illinois.edu 'cd ~/cs225/potd ; exec bash'