But maybe you can give me a hint: I now build in the working code into my script. The script does a foreach on 7000 files. Is it a recommended way to do
"if ssh 'ssh-user0815@example.com' stat $FILETOCHECK \> /dev/null 2\>\&1"
on every file? I ask because to me it looks like it builds then 7000 times a ssh connection.
Is there a way to build it once and then check the files?
I'd have a local file with 7,000 filenames in it:
And run ssh once:
Hi,
I want to sftp some files to a remote directory. Before transferring files i want to check whether the required folder exists. If so copy the files to that folder, else create the folder and copy the files.
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Hi there, I am designing a software rollout script and need to check if a particular file exists on a remote system
something along the lines of
if ; then blah blah
The above doesnt work but you get the general idea....is there a way I can do this on a single line ??
any help would... (2 Replies)
Hi
Does anybody know how I can check if a file exists on a remote machine
i.e. see bellow, this doesn't work by the way and if tried countless variations on this
#!/bin/sh
hostname=server56
if ; then
echo file exists
else
echo file doesn't exist
fi
Any help on this would... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a script that uploads a file from local to remote place using ftp. The problem is that, if on remote host there is a file called the same as the one I want to upload, the ftp program overrides that file. But I don't want to override nothing (even if the remote file is older,... (3 Replies)
I am haveing one script haveing one issue with this could any one can reply soon it is very urgent.
:p
if ssh hcp_ftp@$1 'ls '$2/stop.txt' 1>&2 2>/dev/null'; then exit 1;
else
scp -p hcp_ftp@$1:$2/VAT*.dat $3 <<EOF
EOF
cd $3
pwd
echo 'About to find file'
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Hi everyone,
I am trying to figure out a way to ssh to remote server and check if file exists, and if it doesn't I want to leave the script with an exit status of 5.
I have the following that I am attempting to use, but it is not returning anything:
check()
{
ssh ${SOURCE_SERV} "ls -l... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need to check if a file exists on remote server using expect.
#!/bin/bash
ip_addr=10.10.10.10
user=root
passwd=Help
filename=/root/test
expect -c "
spawn ssh -n -T -o NumberOfPasswordPrompts=3 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no $user@$ip_addr
expect \"*?assword:*\"
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Dear members, The following expect script connects to remote node and check for the file "authorized_keys" in directory /root/.ssh in remote node. However the result is always found even if the file exist or doesn't exist.
expect {
"$fname" {
send_user "found\n"
}
Any idea what is... (4 Replies)