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06-27-2006

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Tricky script question

Hi,

I'm in the midst of writing a UNIX script that sftp's files to an external host and am stuck with a problem. The problem is that the files created on my server as a order number that correlates to a sequence of directories on the remote host which is where the file should be ftp'ed.

Example:
My server filename:
myserver> /home/ 572011 O4MP ORDS 188406 V01 DT 20060608154548.txt

The 4th field (188406 ) in my filename correlates to a directory on the remote server where the file should be store. So on the remote server we should be sftp'ing this file to path

Remote Server:
remoteserver> /Test Documents/TestOrders/180001-190000/188001-189000/188401-188500/188406

The remote server has about 30+ directories and sub-directory ranges created to facilitate this file transfer. Remote server directory listings as range level and sub directories follow:
100001-110000 110001-120000
180001-190000 270001-280000 300001-310000 320001-330000
330001-340000 350001-360000 370001-380000 380001-390000
390001-400000 400001-410000 410001-420000 420001-430000
430001-440000 440001-450000 450001-460000 460001-470000
470001-480000 480001-490000 490001-500000 500001-510000
510001-520000 520001-530000 530001-540000 540001-550000
550001-560000 560001-570000 570001-580000 580001-590000
590001-600000 600001-610000

So another example would be that if we received a filename:
/home/ 572011 O4MP ORDS 588406 V01 DT 20060608154548.txt (Note: 588406 is the directory to be stored on remote site as explained above)

How can I make the script smart enough for it to look at the forth field in my file name and sftp it on the remote server path:
remoteserver> /Test Documents/TestOrders/580001-590000/588001-589000/588401-588500/588406

This is for #!/bin/sh, #!/bin/csh or #!/bin/ksh and based on HP-UX 11i.

Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

budrito

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sftp-server

SFTP-SERVER(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					    SFTP-SERVER(8)

NAME

     sftp-server -- SFTP server subsystem

SYNOPSIS

     sftp-server [-ehR] [-f log_facility] [-l log_level] [-u umask]

DESCRIPTION

     sftp-server is a program that speaks the server side of SFTP protocol to stdout and expects client requests from stdin.  sftp-server is not
     intended to be called directly, but from sshd(8) using the Subsystem option.

     Command-line flags to sftp-server should be specified in the Subsystem declaration.  See sshd_config(5) for more information.

     Valid options are:

     -e      Causes sftp-server to print logging information to stderr instead of syslog for debugging.

     -f log_facility
	     Specifies the facility code that is used when logging messages from sftp-server.  The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH,
	     LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2, LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7.  The default is AUTH.

     -h      Displays sftp-server usage information.

     -l log_level
	     Specifies which messages will be logged by sftp-server.  The possible values are: QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1,
	     DEBUG2, and DEBUG3.  INFO and VERBOSE log transactions that sftp-server performs on behalf of the client.	DEBUG and DEBUG1 are
	     equivalent.  DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of debugging output.  The default is ERROR.

     -R      Places this instance of sftp-server into a read-only mode.  Attempts to open files for writing, as well as other operations that
	     change the state of the filesystem, will be denied.

     -u umask
	     Sets an explicit umask(2) to be applied to newly-created files and directories, instead of the user's default mask.

     For logging to work, sftp-server must be able to access /dev/log.	Use of sftp-server in a chroot configuration therefore requires that
     syslogd(8) establish a logging socket inside the chroot directory.

SEE ALSO

     sftp(1), ssh(1), sshd_config(5), sshd(8)

     T. Ylonen and S. Lehtinen, SSH File Transfer Protocol, draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-00.txt, January 2001, work in progress material.

HISTORY

     sftp-server first appeared in OpenBSD 2.8.

AUTHORS

     Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>

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