Shell Programming and Scripting

Thanks all ...

Now I am able to get the echo statement messages...

And there is another problem ...

I am sftp'ng files from remote server to local server. But the timestamps(date also) were replaced with the present time of the local server and in reverse order.

Eg. on remote server

Code:

$ ls -ltr
total 20672
-rw-r--r--   1 john      other      10471630 Mar 19  12:56  file1.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 john      other      45496       Mar 19  13:37  file2.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 john      other      45512        Mar 24 13:42  file3.txt

But after sftping files were replaced with present date and timestamp ..Also files are received in reverse order.But I am looking for the same order as in remote server.
At present I am receiving with below time stamps

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 john    users   45512       2013-03-28 03:43 file3.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 john   users    45496       2013-03-28 03:43 file2.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 john   users    10471630 2013-03-28 03:43  file1.txt

Could you please help with appropriate command ?

Thanks in advance...

Regards,
J

If you look in the man page and find the section for interactive commands, you may have the option for a -P on the get sub-command that collects permissions and access time.

If not, can you SSH to the server and archive the files with tar? If so you can SFTP the tar files and when extracted, you can preserve modification times then.



Do either of these help?

Robin

I guess it's better to tar and then sftp the files and then extract the tar file..

Thanks alot rbatte1.....

Well, using get -P would save coding, elapse time and disk space if it is available. Have you checked the man page for SFTP on your system?



Robin

Directories don't really have any dependable order in particular, never did.