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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Files between two dates in UNIX Post 302907856 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 2nd of July 2014 06:02:00 AM

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If you were to consider the problem as a manual tasks, break it down into smaller chunks and logically work out the simplest steps you can.

What you haven't said is that you are connecting with sftp and have no other access.

I have a few questions:-

Can you ssh connect without a password?
Is an ssh session allowed to create files in /tmp?

If you can, then create a script on the remote server to do this:-

Identify the files
Use sftp to send the files from the remote server to your local server.

If you cannont sftp to your local server, you could code the script to:-

Identify the files to be transferred
Bundle them up with tar to a single file with a fixed name
Disconnect the ssh session (i.e. exit the remote script)
Connect with sftp from your local server and get (and delete) the fixed name file
Extract the contents to your desired location

If you cannot ssh you will need three main steps (in my opinion):-

Connect with sftp and get a file listing, capturing it to a local file and disconnect
Locally process the list to decide which files to collect
Connect again with sftp getting the files you have identified.

Does this get you any further?

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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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