Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/ksh
set timeout 60

result=1
tries=0
# TODO while [[ $result -ne 0 ]] ; do
while [[ 1 -ne 0 ]] ; do
   expect << EOF
      spawn sftp me@host.name.com <<EOF
      expect "\*password:\*"
      send -- "${password}\r"
      expect "sftp> "
      send -- "lcd /path/to/local/file/\r"
      expect "sftp> "
      send -- "cd /remote/path/to/place/file/\r"
      expect "sftp> "
      send -- "put file_name.txt\r"
      expect "sftp> "
      send -- "bye\r"
EOF
   result=$?
   let tries+=1 ;
   echo "###result:${result}:tries bottom:${tries}"
done

#!/bin/ksh

set -A A_FILE file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 file6 file7 file8 file9 file10

i=0

while [ -n "${A_FILE[$i]}" ]
do
   sftp -o IdentityFile=${KEYFILE} ${FTPUSER}@${FTPSERVER} <<-EOF
      put ${L_PATH}/${A_FILE[$i]} ${R_PATH}/${A_FILE[$i]}
      quit
   #
   # The EOF must be TABbed over.  It can not be spaces.
   # 
   EOF
   (( i = i + 1 ))
done