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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers automate sftp in sun solaris. Post 302511312 by Corona688 on Wednesday 6th of April 2011 12:20:45 PM
Old 04-06-2011
This seems a rather indirect way to do it. Why not just run it, instead of echoing commands into a file that runs it and running that? Putting it all into echo statements like that also makes it rather difficult to tease apart what you're actually doing.

Unfortunate that your version of sftp doesn't support -b but there's ways around that.

The chmod is pointless if you're running it with 'ksh scriptfile' by the way.

How about:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

# This feeds the lines following <<EOF into sftp on standard
# input, this is called a 'here-document'.
# Errors are saved to err.log, stdout to out.log
sftp username@host > out.log 2> err.log <<EOF
put hello.txt
quit
EOF

---------- Post updated at 10:20 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:18 AM ----------

Also, I suspect you're not capturing the errors because they're printed to standard error, not standard out.
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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9

sftp-server

sftp-server(1M)                                           System Administration Commands                                           sftp-server(1M)

NAME

       sftp-server - SFTP server subsystem

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server

DESCRIPTION

       sftp-server implements the server side of the SSH File Transfer Protocol as defined in the IETF draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer.

       sftp-server is a subsystem for sshd(1M) and must not be run directly. There are no options or config settings.

       To enable the sftp-server subsystem for sshd add the following to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

       Subsystem   sftp     /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server

       See sshd_config(4) for a description of the format and contents of that file.

       There is no relationship between the protocol used by sftp-server and the FTP protocol (RFC 959) provided by in.ftpd.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0        Successful completion.

       >0       An error occurred.

FILES

       /usr/lib/sftp-server

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWsshdu                    |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |Evolving                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       sftp(1), ssh(1), ssh-add(1), ssh-keygen(1), sshd(1M), sshd_config(4), attributes(5)

       To  view  license  terms,  attribution,  and  copyright  for OpenSSH, the default path is /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWsshdr/install/copyright. If the
       Solaris operating environment has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the given path to access the file at the installed
       location.

AUTHOR

       Markus Friedl

SunOS 5.10                                                          30 Jul 2003                                                    sftp-server(1M)
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