Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All,
I am really looking for your help regards to the below issue.

My requirement is to get the files from the remote server using SFTP
and then remove the retrieved files in the remote directory. File names
are unique in the remote directory. so first I will need to get the files
,then know the file names and then remove the files with this file names.

I tried below code , Using this I can able to retrive the files and know the file names but unable to remove the files . Please check the code
and suggest me ....

Code:

sftp warnesftp@161.17.33.237 <<EOF
cd /home/warnersftp/Test/warn
get *.xml /home/lidca/intel/order
quit
EOF
ls /home/lidca/intel/order/*.xml >> filelist.txt
 
while read N
do
 echo >>todo.lst cd /home/warnersftp/Test/warn
 echo >>todo.lst rm $N
 echo >>todo.lst 
done <list.txt
echo >>todo.lst quit
sftp warnesftp@161.17.33.237 <todo.lst
rm todo.lst

Thanks
Vinay

Moderator's Comments:

Please use code tags when posting data and code samples!

Should use sftp -b batchfile user@host processing commands in batch (both for fetch and rm calls).

Filelist is in filelist.txt not list.txt

What error do you get with rm? Could it be you don't have permission to delete files on the sftp server? Can you rm files interactively using that login?

Hi Chubler,

Thanks a lot for quick response ....I did change the code as you suggested but no use ...It's giving an error like file name couldn't find.

I can able to use rm files interactively and I have the permissions. I think the code is entirely wrong after WHILE READ N.

Can you please suggest me and save.....

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Can any one please help me on this .....

Can you post the transcript of the rm session, with the exact error message?
Do you have any "funny" characters in your file or directory names (eg star, space, quote, dollar signs, etc.)?

Are you cleaning out the file that is built with

Code:

lls /home/lidca/intel/order/*.xml >> filelist.txt

each time you run the script, otherwise files you deleted last session will still be in filelist.txt and will cause errors the 2nd and subsequent times they are passed to the rm phase.

Hello Chubler ,

I have resolved this issue by myself ....But you only responded here and proposed some solution ...Thanks for your help again

Hello Vinay

Can you update the solution you had for this. I too have the same requirement.

Thanks