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Hi,

I am using SFTP for transferring files to remote server. Below is the snipped i am using for my sftp program

Code:

        echo "lcd $i_localdir">/tmp/sftp_Batch
        echo "cd $i_destdir">>/tmp/sftp_Batch
        echo "put $i_filename">>/tmp/sftp_Batch
        echo "chmod 644 $i_destdir/$i_filename">>/tmp/sftp_Batch
        echo "quit">>/tmp/sftp_Batch
        sftp -b /tmp/sftp_Batch ${i_userid}@${i_host} > /tmp/sftp_Log

The problem is that i am getting return code as 1 even though the transfer is successful. The above logic is in a loop and this is not happening for every file.

Try capturing its stderr to the logfile too to see if it prints any errors.

If I remember right, you can prefix any of the commands in a batch file with "-", for example "-chmod 644 $idestdir/$i_filename" to prevent "exit on error", which I think is what's going on here. Quite possibly, the file is successfully transferred, but the chmod is failing.

You might, as Corona688 suggests, change that last line to:

Code:

sftp -b /tmp/sftp_Batch ${i_userid}@${i_host} 2>&1 >>/tmp/sftp_Log

to both redirect standard output and stderr to the logfile, and also not overwrite the log file with each iteration of your loop.