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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting SFTP password through shell script. Post 302813273 by spacebar on Monday 27th of May 2013 01:35:28 AM
Old 05-27-2013
This is a example 'expect' script that should perform what you want(i.e get file from remote host):
Code:
#!/usr/bin/expect --
# Script: sftp_file_from.tcl
# Description: Utility to SFTP a file from(i.e. get) a host(i.e. source)
# usage: sftp_file_to.tcl source_host user pass source_directory local_directory file_name_to_ftp


# Set named parameters
set source_host              [lindex $argv 0]
set sftp_user                [lindex $argv 1]
set sftp_pass                [lindex $argv 2]
set source_directory         [lindex $argv 3]
set local_directory          [lindex $argv 4]
set file_name                [lindex $argv 5]
set sftp_prompt "sftp>?"
set timeout 300

#exp_internal 1;

# Procedure to connect to SFTP server
proc connect { sftp_pass } {
  variable sftp_prompt
  variable source_host
  expect -re "Are you sure you want to continue.*" { exp_send "YES\r"; exp_continue } \
         -re "(Password|password).*:.*"            { exp_send "$sftp_pass\r"; exp_continue } \
         -re $sftp_prompt                          { return 0 } \
         eof                                       { puts "***Error connecting to($source_host)."; return 1 }
         timeout                                   { puts "***Error connecting to($source_host)."; return 1 }
  }

# Procedure to send meesage denoting error, then quit SFTP, then exit with status denoting error.
proc abort { msg } {
  puts "$msg";
  exp_send "quit\r";
  exit 1;
  }

# Connect to the SFTP server
spawn sftp $sftp_user@$source_host
set connect_results [connect $sftp_pass]

# If successful connection, continue, else exit denoting error occured.
if { $connect_results == 0 } {
  # Change to source directory on source server.
  exp_send "cd $source_directory\r"
    expect "No such file or directory" { abort "\n**Error changing to directory($source_directory) on source server." } \
           -re $sftp_prompt            {} \
           timeout { abort "\n**Error changing to directory($source_directory) on source server." }

  # Change local directory.
  exp_send "lcd $local_directory\r"
    expect "No such file or directory" { abort "\n**Error changing to directory($local_directory) on local host." } \
           -re $sftp_prompt            {} \
           timeout { abort "\n**Error changing to directory($local_directory) on local host." }

  # Get file from source host
  set timeout 1800
  exp_send "get $file_name\r"
    expect "not found."                { abort "\n***Error transfering file($file_name) FROM: $source_host)." } \
           -re $sftp_prompt            {} \
           timeout { abort "\n***Error transfering file($file_name) FROM: $source_host)." }

  # QUIT!!
  exp_send "quit\r"
  # Successful SFTP session so exit with zero status
  exit 0
}
# Error connecting to SFTP server so exit with non-zero status
exit 1

 

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libssh2_sftp_read(3)						  libssh2 manual					      libssh2_sftp_read(3)

NAME
libssh2_sftp_read - read data from an SFTP handle SYNOPSIS
#include <libssh2.h> #include <libssh2_sftp.h> ssize_t libssh2_sftp_read(LIBSSH2_SFTP_HANDLE *handle, char *buffer, size_t buffer_maxlen); DESCRIPTION
handle is the SFTP File Handle as returned by libssh2_sftp_open_ex(3) buffer is a pointer to a pre-allocated buffer of at least buffer_maxlen bytes to read data into. Reads a block of data from an LIBSSH2_SFTP_HANDLE. This method is modelled after the POSIX read(2) function and uses the same calling semantics. libssh2_sftp_read(3) will attempt to read as much as possible however it may not fill all of buffer if the file pointer reaches the end or if further reads would cause the socket to block. RETURN VALUE
Number of bytes actually populated into buffer, or negative on failure. It returns LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN when it would otherwise block. While LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN is a negative number, it isn't really a failure per se. ERRORS
LIBSSH2_ERROR_ALLOC - An internal memory allocation call failed. LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_SEND - Unable to send data on socket. LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_TIMEOUT - LIBSSH2_ERROR_SFTP_PROTOCOL - An invalid SFTP protocol response was received on the socket, or an SFTP operation caused an errorcode to be returned by the server. SEE ALSO
libssh2_sftp_open_ex(3) libssh2_sftp_read(3) libssh2 0.15 1 Jun 2007 libssh2_sftp_read(3)
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