How to catch the exception on SFTP?


 
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Old 03-19-2008
Question How to catch the exception on SFTP?

I just want to send files to remote machine via SFTP, my question is: how can I catch the exception when SFTP command error occur? for example: add a log when network interrupt on SFTP put(or failure on rename the remote file etc.).

the shell run on linux.
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Old 03-19-2008
Can anybody answer this question?
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Old 03-20-2008
What happens if you simply try redirecting the stderr of the sftp command to a log file? a la:

Code:
sftp <servername> 2>sftp.err

Then sftp.err file should contain all the errors.

HTH
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