You haven't told us what shell you're using. So we can only tell you what works with the most common shells. If you're using one of the less common shells, the following advice will not work.
Your continued refusal to show us EXACTLY what you are trying to do and to define what you consider successfully connecting with sftp makes it impossible to give you a definitive answer. The basic answer is that the command sequence:
which assumes that you are running this script interactively and manually entering sftp commands if sftp successfully connects to the specified host.
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Hi All,
I am having shell scripts that make use of ftp to fetch data from one hp-ux box to another. Currently we are migrating these scripts to sftp. Is it a straight forward one? Also, please clarify my following doubts:
1) In ftp we check the success of ftp by verifying the status codes... (4 Replies)
When ssh'ing into certain Unix boxes I'm seeing two errors that appear immediately after entering the password I've never seen. After the error message is displayed the connection closes immediately. The first is “/bin/ksh: Not owner” after which the connection is closed. And, “Read from remote... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
in our system , the sftp server is continuously up. but suddenly it is brought down. how can i find out the reason behind of these , is their any log files or how can i check the connectvity with sftp.
please help me to solve this issue (1 Reply)
Hi Friends
I need to check the status of FTP connection i.e. Whether it is successful or not
I have tried this by assigning the FTP connection script to a variable and after that using this variable I tried to check the status.
In the below code snippet I am trying to assign the FTP... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a simple problem .
I am pulling the file from a remote server througha simple file transfer protocal (ftp ).
But I wanted to check before pulling the file ,whether the file is being written or in use by some other process and if so i dont want to pull the file and wait for... (1 Reply)
hi,
how can i check whether the sftp connectivity is successful or not??
i am using expect script to connect to sftp..
sftp_script
spawn /usr/bin/sftp abc@ftp.xyz.com
expect "abc@ftp.xyz.com's password:"
send "password\r"
expect "sftp>"
send "mput *.txt\r"
expect "sftp>"
send "bye\r"... (8 Replies)
I'm trying to connect from Server A to Server B to transfer files from A to B. I'm using NUID A1 in Server A and NUID A2 in Server B. I have done the following the steps to setup password-less login.
1. Add the public key of A1 in A to the Authorized keys of A2 in B.
2. Add the public key of... (4 Replies)
Guyz,
Please let me know about script which is to be sending an automatic email to particular mail id's when a monotoring job get complete with status successful. (1 Reply)
Hi Everyone,
I am trying to send files from Linux to DataPower server using public key based authentication but it's not working as expected and every-time password expecting for sftp transfer.
Can someone please help on this?
Steps I fallowed:
Created keys pair at source server... (4 Replies)
i have a script that connects to the oracle database and executes the query statements. it works fine and i would like to add some message to check if the connection to oracle is not successful.
basically this is the code snippet:
#!/bin/sh
...
...
...
sqlplus -s username/password@dbName... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
ssh2_sftp_lstat
SSH2_SFTP_LSTAT(3) 1 SSH2_SFTP_LSTAT(3)ssh2_sftp_lstat - Stat a symbolic linkSYNOPSIS
array ssh2_sftp_lstat (resource $sftp, string $path)
DESCRIPTION
Stats a symbolic link on the remote filesystem without following the link.
This function is similar to using the lstat(3) function with the ssh2.sftp:// wrapper in PHP 5 and returns the same values.
PARAMETERS
o $sftp
-
o $path
- Path to the remote symbolic link.
RETURN VALUES
See the documentation for stat(3) for details on the values which may be returned.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
Stating a symbolic link via SFTP
<?php
$connection = ssh2_connect('shell.example.com', 22);
ssh2_auth_password($connection, 'username', 'password');
$sftp = ssh2_sftp($connection);
$statinfo = ssh2_sftp_lstat($sftp, '/path/to/symlink');
$filesize = $statinfo['size'];
$group = $statinfo['gid'];
$owner = $statinfo['uid'];
$atime = $statinfo['atime'];
$mtime = $statinfo['mtime'];
$mode = $statinfo['mode'];
?>
SEE ALSO ssh2_sftp_stat(3), lstat(3), stat(3).
PHP Documentation Group SSH2_SFTP_LSTAT(3)