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Old 03-13-2008
i want to sftp to a server

Hi all,
I want to sftp to a server called serverB. I want to do it via a running a script. The code i have written is that..

sftp -v x.x.x.x << EOF
user username password
cd dir1
bin
mget *
bye
EOF

But it is not at all working and even it is asking for password. Can any one help me regarding this.

Thank U
Naree
# 2  
Old 03-13-2008
If you do a search of these forums on sftp you will find many postings on this subject. You can only use sftp in interactive mode. For scripting you might try using expect.
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Old 03-13-2008
Another option would be if you are getting the entire contents of the directory, like in your example, is just to do an scp -r on that directory. Then you would get it all and it a one line command and easily scriptable. Also better to set up pub/priv keys for SSH too instead of putting the user name and password in the script.
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