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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unable to do SFTP using expect Post 302945671 by RudiC on Monday 1st of June 2015 12:11:12 PM
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Try embedding it in a here document (c.f. man bash)
You might want to consider Corona688's comment, though. With ssh and keys installed, you could even simpler just scp files over, sort of on the fly.
 

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libssh2_sftp_unlink_ex(3)					  libssh2 manual					 libssh2_sftp_unlink_ex(3)

NAME
libssh2_sftp_unlink_ex - unlink an SFTP file SYNOPSIS
#include <libssh2.h> #include <libssh2_sftp.h> int libssh2_sftp_unlink_ex(LIBSSH2_SFTP *sftp, const char *filename, unsigned int filename_len); int libssh2_sftp_unlink(LIBSSH2_SFTP *sftp, const char *filename); DESCRIPTION
sftp - SFTP instance as returned by libssh2_sftp_init(3) filename - Path and name of the existing filesystem entry filename_len - Length of the path and name of the existing filesystem entry Unlink (delete) a file from the remote filesystem. RETURN VALUE
Return 0 on success 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_init(3) libssh2 0.15 1 Jun 2007 libssh2_sftp_unlink_ex(3)
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