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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers File Listing from remote to loca directory using SFTP Post 302625311 by Corona688 on Tuesday 17th of April 2012 02:39:59 PM
Old 04-17-2012
First, you must arrange keys so you can login passwordlessly. You do this the same way you do for ssh, and there's tutorials all over the internet from that. This is safer and more convenient than keeping passwords inside your scripts, especially because sftp no longer allows this.

Then you can just sftp in and feed it commands without worrying about login information like such:

Code:
sftp username@host <<EOF
ls mydir
bye
EOF

Some systems may need sftp -b.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

ftp

ftp(4)								   File Formats 							    ftp(4)

NAME

       ftp - FTP client configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/default/ftp

DESCRIPTION

       Use  the ftp file to configure the behavior of the FTP client. Lines that begin with a hash symbol ("# ") are treated as comment  lines and
       are ignored.

   Behavior Directives
       The ftp file supports the following behavior directives:

       FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST=yes | no    The ls command of the ftp client sends an NLST to the FTP Server by default. Several non-Solaris clients send
				     LIST  instead.  In  order	to  make  the  Solaris	ftp  client  send  LIST when the ls command is issued, set
				     FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST to no. The value of FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST is yes by default.

       If the user sets a value for FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST in the user's environment, this value will override any FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST directive that	is
       specified in /etc/default/ftp.

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWbipr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ftp(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    22 Oct 2002 							    ftp(4)
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