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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help on shell scripting Post 302972186 by bakunin on Monday 2nd of May 2016 09:42:58 AM
Old 05-02-2016
Pertaining to your problem at hand you already got some sound advice.

Anyways, i would like to question your construction as a whole:

Quote:
Originally Posted by chandraprakash
I need a help on my shell script. Below is my shell script which transfers the file from one server to another.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Please enter id no : "
read input_variable
echo "You entered: $input_variable"
HOST=xxxx
USER=xx
PASSWORD=xxx
ftp -inv $HOST <<EOF
user $USER $PASSWORD
cd /wpath/to/copy/files/$input_variable/inputs/final/
mput x.csv
bye
EOF

I think you should not use ftp any more and you definitely should not put passwords into scripts AT ALL!

You can do all you have shown here using either "sftp" or - IMHO even better - "scp" and avoid many of the obstacles you try to overcome from the beginning.

What you need for "scp" to work is an installed "ssh" suite (scp is usually part of this) and exchanged keys. How to do that, how to generate the keys and store them in the appropriate key files is described in many threads here, just search for it.

Having set up this here is the sketch of a script you could use:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
typeset input_variable=""
typeset host="XXX"
typeset user="xx"

echo "Please enter id no : "
read input_variable
echo "You entered: $input_variable"

# if the directory does not exist ls (and ssh in turn) will return a non-zero RC
if ! ssh -nqo 'BatchMode = yes' ${user}@${host} ls /wpath/to/copy/files/$input_variable/inputs/final >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
     echo "Directory $input_variable does not exist on host $host."
     exit 1
fi

if ! scp x.csv ${user}@${host}:/wpath/to/copy/files/$input_variable/inputs/final ; then
     echo "Failed to transfer the file."
     exit 2
fi

echo "File transfer successful."
exit 0

Of course you can put a lot more testing into this sketch, create better error-handling, maybe test for the IP-connectivity first before trying the ssh-connection (ping), etc.. Scripting is not about doing things but to plan in advance what possibly could go wrong and cover for that.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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