Shell Programming and Scripting

I had the below sftp script working perfectly but the problem is I am not able to send the echo statements .

Code:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Starting to sftp..."
sftp admin@myip << END_SCRIPT
cd /remotepath/
lcd /localpath/
mget myfiles*.csv
bye
END_SCRIPT
echo "Sftp successfully."
echo
echo "program ended"
echo

Now the files has been successfully copied but the echo statments were not printed after the completion of sftp. i.e., "Sftp successfully" and "program ended" were not printed...

Could anyone please let me know what went wrong and how to print the echo statments at the end.

Thanks in advance..

Regards,
J

Hmm, works here.

The second END_SCRIPT, which ends the here-document, must start at the beginning of the line, no leading blanks or tabs are allowed. But you should get a warning from the shell, if this is not the case.

Thanks sir...

I have verified and executed the script once again.. but no luck.. As you said.. second END_SCRIPT here statement started exactly at the beginning of the file and not sure that it executed for you..

Are there any other possibilities ??

Regards,
J

Since it works here, there must be something in the real script, which is not present in your example.

Try to replace "END_SCRIPT" with something different, shorter, like "EOF" for example (maybe there is a typo there). Try to execute sftp step by step manually and see, if something unusual happens, which your script does not take into account. It's a try-and-error approach, I'm afraid.

I'm not sure this is right. << END_SCRIPT
Try <<END_SCRIPT

Well, SFTP is a very different client to FTP. I don't think that SFTP will accept in-stream commands (well, that's what MVS used to call them) You will need to use the batch mode of SFTP.

my-stuff.sftpb

Code:

cd /remotepath/
lcd /localpath/
mget myfiles*.csv
bye

Script

Code:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Starting to sftp..."
sftp -b my-stuff.sftpb admin@myip
if [ $? -eq 0] 
then
   print "Sftp successfully.\n\nprogram ended\n"
else
   print "Sftp error.\n\nprogram abended\n"
fi

Of course, this is wholly automated, so you cannot pause for passphrase entry or anything. The server fingerprint must already be in known_hosts, but you've probably tried a manual SFTP or SSH which will establish that for you anyway.



I hope that this helps.

Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

I've found most sftp clients are able to accept here-documents.