Shell Programming and Scripting

hi,

can anyone tell me how can i store the names of a file that are in remote server to a file and then get the file that contains the name in local server?

there is a remote server where 5 files are present , say

Code:

a.txt
b.txt
c.txt
d.txt
e.txt

i want to write a script in my local server, which will connect to remote server and write all the filenames that are present in remote server (a.txt, b.txt, c.txt, d.txt, e.txt) in a temporary file say filenames.txt.

so filenames.txt will have the contents

Code:

cat filenames.txt
a.txt
b.txt
c.txt
d.txt
e.txt

after this i want to transfer this file (filenames.txt) to local server using any protocol?

please suggest ideas or scripts if it is possible.

thanks

What all protocols are available for you to use?

If you can use 'ssh' this is one way to create a file on local host and populate with file names form remote host:

Code:

ssh user@remote_host 'ls /path/to/files/*' > /tmp/file_list.txt

i can use ftp, scp..

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if any other way it can be done.. please tell

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but how will i provide the password in this case automatically, because the script will be running without any user interaction.

by using ftp, i can pass the password like

Code:

ftp -n remote_machine <<_ftp
  quote USER username
  quote PASS password
  ls
  bye
_ftp

is there any other way to provide the password ?

Even i would sugest ssh. It would be better option.

You have to setup password less ssh. You will find lot of docs over internet regarding its settings