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# 1  
Old 09-09-2013
Not able to capture sftp error in Korn Shell
I am not able to capture error condition in sftp in Korn Shell

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
sftp  batch@uat >abc 2>&1 << ENDFILE
   cd public
   put /data/WELCOME_55
ENDFILE
ret_val=$?
if [[ $ret_val -eq 0 ]]
then
   print file "copied successfully"
else
   print file "NOT copied successfully"
fi
return 0

Now the file /data/WELCOME_55 does not exist. I am seeing the error message in file abc. But ret_val is zero.

Any help?

Thanks - Soham
# 2  
Old 09-09-2013
I couldn't get it to work, either.

Maybe you could check if the file exists after SFTP is done?

Code:
if [ -f filename ]; then
  ...
else
  ...
fi

# 3  
Old 09-09-2013
Yes that will work if the file does not exist in destination server. If it exists and the sftp has failed, still we will get SUCCESS messaage.
# 4  
Old 09-09-2013
Try running sftp in batch mode...see man pages, should return 1 in this case. Also try running sftp in verbose modes so you see the nature of the failure.
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# 5  
Old 09-09-2013
Oh yes, I saw that but didn't think to test it. Shows how much I use SFTP Smilie
# 6  
Old 09-09-2013
I have tried that also. But no success.
# 7  
Old 09-09-2013
Having read the man page, I'd assume that would work.

Here's what I use!
Code:
$ ssh someone@somewhere '[ -f /tmp/temp.txt ] && cat /tmp/temp.txt || exit 1' > temp.txt  
$ echo $?
1

$ ssh someone@somewhere 'touch /tmp/temp.txt'

$ ssh someone@somewhere '[ -f /tmp/temp.txt ] && cat /tmp/temp.txt || exit 1' > temp.txt  
$ echo $?
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