UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

can anyone help me

Can you sftp this from the command line without using expect?

Personally I think you are making the operation more complicated than it needs to be.

Are you able to use an SSH key pair to make the connection? This would get rid of the need to send passwords.

Are you only sending the one file? The script you have shown in previous posts could have been stripped down to show the problems you are experiencing. If it has not, and you are only sending one file, you could use SCP instead of SFTP, provided you can make use of an SSH key pair. Your script could then be something like:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
remuser=xxx
remhost=yyy
remdir=zzz
logfile=$(date -d "1 day ago" +"LOGS_%Y_%m_%d.tar.gz")
if [[ -e ${logfile} ]]
then scp ${logfile} ${remuser}@${remhost}:${remdir}
else echo "Cannot find log file ${logfile}"
fi

Andrew

Hi Andrew,


My current problem is that when I am trying to run my script by scheduling it in cron it did not work.
however when the same script I run manually it works.


this issue I am not able to figure out

Are you running the script manually from the same directory that it will be run by cron?

What happens when the full pathname of the log file is used in the script?

Andrew

Hi Andrew,
yes the path is same when I run manually or when it runs from cron.


below error I get when script run from cron

Code:

# log
+ log
spawn sftp AUT@xx.xx.xx.xx
Connecting to xx.xx.xx.xx...
AUT@xx.xx.xx.xx's password: 
sftp> cd /home 
sftp> put LOGS_2018-08-08.tar.gz
stat LOGS_2018-08-08.tar.gz: No such file or directory