UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I am running an sftp batch script.

sftp -b user@host <<EOF >> /tmp/file.out
binary
put file.txt
bye
EOF

However, I am getting errors.

No such file or directory (user@host).

I checked the forums which says I need to access the current process eg for linux I would need

sftp -b /dev/stdin user@host <<EOF >> /tmp/file.out
binary
put file.txt
bye
EOF

I am using HP-UX 11.0, what would I use instead of /dev/stdin?

Many thanks
Helen

See your other thread - I've put an example of how to use the -b option there. Place your commands in the batchfile and redirect the output somewhere.

Cheers
ZB

Thanks Zazzy you're a star.

I'll give this a try.

Cheers
Helen :-)

Hi,
I was having a problem figuring out how to "access" the stdin in a batch on our server (most of the UNIX gurus that I normally ask are out of the office today). So I settled on creating a temporary ftp script by echoing my commands to it and then calling that from sftp -b.
Hope this helps someone else.
-- Eric



#===================================
# FILE NAME
# sftp_to_host.sh
#
# DESCRIPTION
# Shell script to send a file to a host
#
# PARAMETERS EXPECTED
# 1 = output file (with path)
# 2 = user_id@server_name combination
# 3 = acr_directory
#
# sftp_to_host.sh test.txt user_name@10.1.2.3 /tmp/

outfile=$1
user_server=$2
host_dir=$3

echo cd $host_dir > /tmp/sftp_to_host$$.ftp
echo put $outfile >> /tmp/sftp_to_host$$.ftp
echo bye >> /tmp/sftp_to_host$$.ftp

sftp -b /tmp/sftp_to_host$$.ftp $user_server > /tmp/sftp_to_host.log

rm /tmp/sftp_to_host$$.ftp
rm /tmp/sftp_to_host.log