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Old 02-23-2012
[Solved] SCP error: No such file or directory
Hi,


I am trying to do scp using the following script:
Code:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash

BUILDDATE=20120220

for line in `cat arch_host_plat_src_dest`
do
        src=`echo $line | cut -d: -f4`
        dest=`echo $line | cut -d: -f5`

    echo scp -p /builds/${BUILDDATE}/Integration/$src  root@10.216.123.456:/builds/gc/$dest
        scp -p /builds/${BUILDDATE}/Integration/$src  root@10.216.123.456:/builds/gc/$dest
done

I have a config file. The content of the file is given below:
Code:
-sh-2.05b$ cat arch_host_plat_src_dest
HP-UX-B.11.23-pa-risc-32:EBHP1100:HPUX-HPPA:hpux-hppa/{data.cab,agent.xml}:hp/hpux/parisc

Output
scp -p /builds/20120220/Integration/hpux-hppa/{data.cab,agent.xml} esm2@10.216.123.456:/builds/gc/hp/hpux/parisc
/builds/20120220/Integration/hpux-hppa/{data.cab,agent.xml}: No such file or directory


However, the given files very much exist in the mentioned source location. Also, if the run the same command on the command line, it works without any issue.

-sh-2.05b$ scp -p /builds/20120220/Integration/hpux-hppa/{data.cab,agent.xml} esm2@10.216.123.456:/builds/gc/hp/hpux/parisc
data.cab 100% 51MB 5.2MB/s 00:09
agent.xml 100% 242 305.7KB/s 00:00


I think, this portion in the config file must be the problem area: {data.cab,agent.xml}

I tried escaping, quoting in different ways that i could think of but couldn't get it working Smilie Smilie

Any help?


Thanks,
Gaurav


---------- Post updated at 07:05 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:59 PM ----------

I got the solution. It was behaving that way because the variable (src) was just reading the string from the config file. It wasn't expanding the content present within curly braces.

This did the trick:
Code:
sh -c "scp -p /builds/${BUILDDATE}/Integration/$src  root@10.216.123.456:/builds/gc/$dest"

Last edited by vbe; 02-23-2012 at 10:02 AM..
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Old 02-23-2012
Glad you found out by yourself...

cheers
 
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