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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problems with expect and sftp in bash Post 302930208 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 31st of December 2014 11:42:23 AM
Old 12-31-2014
Is there a reason not to exchange ssh-keys which will automate the sftp login and therefore you can exploit the functionality of sftp?

It would leave you with far neater code something like:
Code:
printf "cd /outgoing\nget $file\n" > /tmp/sftp.batch
sftp -b /tmp/sftp.batch 10.10.10.10 >$1 2>&1

It might be possible to set it up as a here document too:-
Code:
sftp 10.10.10.10 <<-EOSFTP >$1 2>&1
cd /outgoing
get $file
EOSFTP

Would this help you make things neater, easier and remove the reliance on expect?



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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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