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Thanks. I will try these options and report if they are useful here. The constraint I have is I cannot use any external program like connect.c.

how many systems are connected to your network?

I am writing a shell script which needs to connect to a remote internet ftp site over sftp. The problem is that the Red Hat Linux system on which the script will be executed resides behind a...

Thanks Girish.

Here is the script

#!/bin/sh
SERVER=<my-server-ip-address>
DIR=XYZ
FILE="$(echo ls -t | sftp -b- $SERVER:$DIR | head -n2 | tail -n1)"
echo get "$FILE" | sftp -b-...

I was wondering if it is possible to setup SFTP to go through the internet proxy while connecting to an internet location.

Problem: Client system is behind internet proxy. SFTP to any internet...

Ken,

Since I am moving to a dir when I do the sftp, the FILE variable is getting populated with "Changing directory..." message. Can you help me with a workaround., please?

Amit

Thank you very much. I will try this out and let you know how it went!

Hi Ken, Thanks for the response. Let me elaborate my situation;

1. Are you always fetching the same number of files? -- always getting one file.
2. criteria for what files to get -- The most...

I have been trying to implement the following shell script --

sftp to remote server
get list of files in the directory
sftp get the most recent listed file
exit

This script will be scheduled...