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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Issues with automating SFTP command Post 302586863 by krackjack84 on Tuesday 3rd of January 2012 01:23:25 PM
Old 01-03-2012
Error Issues with automating SFTP command
Hi All,

I am currently looking at automating the steps that I follow to download log files from putty to desktop.

I connect to a client's machine through citrix desktop. I am required to download quite a number of application logs to identfiy the issues in production.

Steps that is being followed now:
1. open putty.exe enter the host name or ip address(art01.wrs.aps-bcs.org)-- this is a stepping stone server
2. Once I click on okay. I get a prompt window with a message login as, after I enter the user name I enter the password.
3. Next I see a "bash >" Now I enter the box to which I have to connect to. It would look like bash> sftp cdsapptl01
4. Now I am asked to enter the password. After that I will have to enter the path of the log file and do a mget.
5. I connect to toad and move the file from server to desktop

So far so good.

I am looking at automating the above steps so that I can run a .bat file to perform the operation.

What I've done so far:

Created a test.bat, it would look like:
CALL putty.exe -load art01.wrs.aps-bcs.org -l username -pw password

When I run this batch file I am directly on to step 3. Makes me feel proud that I got thus far given the fact that I havent worked on scripting or unix.

Next I modified the test.bat to look like :
CALL putty.exe -load art01.wrs.aps-bcs.org -l username -pw password -m command.txt
the command.txt would look like this:
sftp cdsapptl01 (I also tried adding the password to this server in the same line i.e., sftp cdsapptl01 -pw password)

In both the cases what hapens is the prompt window ges closed automatically.

I am looking at the next steps now. I need to add the sftp cdsapptl01 and the password and its path lastly the mger command to download the log file.

So when I run the batch file it should call the command.txt and all the lines should be executed including the mget so that the log file is downloaded.

Can someone please help me in this regard?I am required to complete this task by 9th January. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
 

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update-desktop-database

UPDATE-DESKTOP-DATABASE(1)				      General Commands Manual					UPDATE-DESKTOP-DATABASE(1)

NAME

       update-desktop-database - Build cache database of MIME types handled by desktop files

SYNOPSIS

       update-desktop-database [-q|--quiet] [-v|--verbose] [DIRECTORY...]

DESCRIPTION

       The update-desktop-database program is a tool to build a cache database of the MIME types handled by desktop files.

       The  cache database contains the list of MIME types that can be handled by desktop files, as well as, for each MIME type, a list of desktop
       files that can handle this MIME type. This cache database ease the work of applications that need to find an application that  can  open  a
       document  of  a specific MIME type: those applications will not have to parse all the desktop files existing on the system, and can instead
       parse this cache database.

       If no DIRECTORY is specified as argument, the desktop files that will be processed are the ones installed in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications.

       If both the --quiet and --verbose options are used, then --verbose will be ignored.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -q, --quiet
	      Do not display any information about processing and updating progress.

       -v, --verbose
	      Display more information about processing and updating progress.

NOTES

       If an invalid MIME type is met, it will be ignored and the creation of the cache database will continue.

       The format of the cache database is a simple desktop entry format, with a MIME Cache group, containing one key per MIME type. The key  name
       is the MIME type, and the key value is the list of desktop file that can handle this MIME type.

       The  order  of the desktop files found for a MIME type is not significant.  Therefore, an external mechanism must be used to determine what
       is the preferred desktop file for a MIME type.

EXAMPLE

       Here is a simple example of a cache database:

	       [MIME Cache]
	       application/x-shellscript=gedit.desktop;
	       text/plain=gedit.desktop;gvim.desktop;
	       video/webm=totem.desktop;

       This cache database is created with three desktop files, each containing a MimeType key:

	       gedit.desktop: MimeType=text/plain;application/x-shellscript;
	       gvim.desktop: MimeType=text/plain;
	       totem.desktop: MimeType=video/webm;

FILES

       $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/mimeinfo.cache

	      This file is the cache database created by update-desktop-database.

BUGS

       If you find bugs in the update-desktop-database program, please report these on https://bugs.freedesktop.org.

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