quick script to troubleshoot what is going on with recursive push

debug-launch.sh

#!/bin/sh

set -ex


LXC=/home/sheila/gopath/bin/lxc
COUNT=${1:-5}

echo making $COUNT test files
rm -rf exampledir
mkdir exampledir

for i in $(seq $COUNT)
do
    echo testing > exampledir/testfile$i
done

echo Launching container
NAME=$($LXC launch ubuntu:16.04 | grep Starting | awk '{print $2}')
if [ -z "$NAME" ]; then
    echo Unable to create container. exiting...
    exit 1
fi
echo Created $NAME

echo pushing files
$LXC file push -r $(pwd) $NAME/tmp
echo listing remote files in /tmp
$LXC exec $NAME -- find /tmp
echo local files
tree $(pwd)