If you're using FTP, some FTP clients support ls -l, but it sounds like you need a lot more than that.
If sftp's an option, have you considered rsync? You can consider it to be "cp on steroids". It's an extremely common UNIX utility which connects with ssh (same protocol as sftp) and does a lot of what you're asking for, especially the verification of files.
i.e. you can do rsync -c localfile1 localfile2 localfile3 localfile4 user@hostname:/path/to/remotefolder and it will copy and verify. It will even skip already-existing files based on checksum.
It would make your task very easy.
Code:
exec 2>errorlog
N=0
while ! rsync -c localfile1 localfile2 localfile3 localfile4 user@hostname:/path/to/remotefolder
do
N=$((N+1))
if [ "$N" -ge 5 ]
then
echo "rsync couldn't transfer files, see errlog" >&2
exit 1
fi
done
echo "rsync successfully transferred files"
Thanks Much Corona688., appreciate your help.
I have to implement this functionality using FTP.
Ok., since you have given me the above code I would like to ask few questions.
A. Using FTP method :- Will it not be possible to verify the file transferred and can the restart ability of the script be not achievable?
If so can you please throw some light?
B. Is using SFTP less secure when compared to FTP -s to transfer files from AIX to Mainframe.? Will there be any loss in data .i.e., will the data get corrupted?
And per my understanding if we go with SFTP method, we can used rsync to copy as well as verify the file.
Even in case of failure, restartability is assured(i.e, only files that are not copied will be copied to the mainframe).
Update:- I will not be able to use SFTP
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librsync
librsync(3) Library Functions Manual librsync(3)NAME
librsync - library for delta compression of streams
SYNOPSYS
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <librsync.h>
cc ... -lrsync
DESCRIPTION
The librsync library implements network delta-compression of streams and files. The algorithm is similar to that used in the rsync(1) and
xdelta(2) programs, but specialized for transfer of arbitrary-length octet streams. Unlike most diff programs, librsync does not require
access to both of the files on the same machine, but rather only a short ``signature'' of the old file and the complete contents of the new
file.
The canonical use of librsync is in the rproxy(8) reference implementation of the rsync proposed extension to HTTP. It may be useful to
other programs which wish to do delta-compression in HTTP, or within their own protocol. There are HTTP-specific utility functions within
librsync, but they need not be used.
A number of tools such as rdiff(1) provide command-line and scriptable access to rsync functions.
SEE ALSO rdiff(1)
rdiff and librsync Manual
http://rproxy.sourceforge.net/.
draft-pool-rsync
BUGS
The rsync protocol is still evolving. There may be bugs in the implementation. The interface may change in the future, but it is becoming
more stable.
Many routines will panic in case of error rather than returning an error code to the caller. Patches to fix this are welcome, but at the
current state of development aborting seems as useful as trusting to possibly-incomplete checking in the client.
AUTHOR
Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>, with Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>.
rdiff development has been supported by Linuxcare, Inc and VA Linux Systems.
Martin Pool $Date: 2003/06/12 06:03:32 $ librsync(3)
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