I have this shell script which transfers CSV files to another server using the FTP service, and I need to change this service to SFTP. Can anyone help me?
ftp -inv >$FTP_LOG_FILE <<EOF
open $FTP_HOST
user $FTP_USERNAME $FTP_PASSWORD
lcd $REPORT_LOCAL_SOURCE
cd $DESTINATION_DIRECTORY
mput *$FILE_TYPE
exit
EOF
Can you use public key authentication? That makes it pretty easy - no password required.
Also, personal preference - ftp gives you no way to reasonably interact with the file transfers and react to misbehavior. Try scp.
Assuming automatic public-key authentication and the same vars you used above -
scp $REPORT_LOCAL_SOURCE/*$FILE_TYPE $FTP_USERNAME#$FTP_HOST:$DESTINATION_DIRECTORY/
or, with shorter names...
if scp ldir/*$ext $me#$host:$dir/
then echo "No errors"
else echo "There were errors"
fi
Generally, try to never use all cap vars.
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I have below shell script to get files from ftp server.
I need to change this script to point to same SFTP server ?
Can some one assist to change this script from ftp to sftp?
HOST='some.site.com'
USER='yourid'`enter code here`
PASSWD='yourpw'
FILE='file.txt'
ftp $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
user $USER
$PASSWD
put $FILE
quit
END_SCRIPT
exit 0
It's not so complicated, just use the sftp binary instead of the ftp. The FTP commands stay exactly the same (it's still the FTP protocol, just over an encrypted connection), the user may be specified as a part of the SFTP's host argument:
sftp $USER#$HOST <<EOF
$PASSWD
put $FILE
quit
EOF
I have an FTP Script as below. And I want the same to be converted to Secured FTP (SFTP) script.
FTP_OUT=`ftp -v -n << END_SCRIPT
open $HOST
user $USR $PWD
lcd $LOC_PATH
cd $REM_PATH
mput $FILENM
quit
END_SCRIPT`
Suggest the SFTP equivalent of the above FTP script to transfer file from local server to remote server.
You should use scp
scp filename user#host:remote_path
This requires you to enter the password. If you want to avoid entering the password every time you use scp, you could generate an authentication key with ssh-keygen.
First I have to say you that I'm a newbie, but I wanna learn!
I need a script which suppose to check the ftp and sftp communication. This is for 26 ftp and sftp.
Script has to execute just 1 times and script suppose to login to ftp and sftp servers using username with password, easy from an extern list.
If ftp works also it has to send an mail and even if it is fail also it suppose to send the mail. Or just a print on screen with status : alive or not alive should be ok.
I am starting with the below script:
I found something like :
"You can use your script with a regular user, creating the file .netrc in the user's homedir (~/.netrc), with the following contents:
Code:
machine 192.1.1.1
login usename
password user-passwd"
...
ftp -v -n <<EOF > ${LOG_FTP} 2>&1
open ${IP_ADDRESS_SERVER}
user ${FTPUSER} ${FTPPASS}
...
EOF
I need now to understand how I can send the email to my email adres or just print on screen the results.
Please can you suggest me the right way or help me write the script.
It would be great help for me.
Thanks in advance for all your help!
Nico
you can use sendmail for sending emails to your email id. IF you're working on bash, then pre-pend this line to your script:
#!/bin/bash
Then do this on terminal:
chmod +x <scriptname> #setting executable permission for script
./<scriptname> #executing the script
I would like to automate a bash script, that connects to server using sftp and does a file transfer. I have the password for this, and initially I tried for this
sftp $acc#$host << EOF
<passwd_here>
cd $dir
get $file
quit
EOF
but it still prompted for password, and I had to enter it manually at the prompt.
After searching SO, I found this post which had a solution with expect, which I tried and I got the following error:
Script:
sftp -b cmdfile.txt $acc#$host
expect "Password:"
send "<passwd>\n";
interact
Error:
Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
cmdfile.txt
cd $dir
get $file
quit
Please let me know, How to connect using the password in a bash script?
Please try the below steps
lftp -u $user,$pass sftp://$host << --EOF--
cd $directory
put $srcfile
quit
--EOF--
With scp/sftp you should use key-based authentication. Public key from the user you want to authenticate copy into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the server, into home directory of user on which you want log on. Storing password in clear text on client side is not a good practice, you know :) That way you "workaround" problem of reading password from the prompt too.
Yes key-based auth is the way to go.
Check here for some direction.
In my script - i create a sftp connection.
I read some directory value from user earlier and once the sftp connection is established, i try to cd to that dir which i got from the user.
But its not working, probably bec the prompt goes inside the server to which the SFTP connection was established.
In this case how to make it work ?
I also faced this problem and was able to find the solution. The solution is right there in the man page of sftp. In the man page, you will find where it is written the format of using sftp like this:
sftp [options] [user#]host[:dir[/]]
Actually, two formats are given there but this is the one I wanted to use and it worked.
So, what do you do? You simply supply the username#host as seen there, then, without any space followed by : and the path you want to change to in the client/remote server in your script and that's all. Here is a practical example:
sftp user#host:/path/
If your script does, as you state somewhere in this page,
sftp $user#$host cd $directory
and then tries to do something else, like:
sftp $user#$host FOO
That command FOO will not be executed in the same directory $directory since you're executing a new command, which will create a new connection to the SFTP server.
What you can do is use the "batchfile" option of sftp, i.e. construct a file which contains all the commands you'd like sftp to do over one connection, for example:
$ cat commands.txt
cd foo/bar
put foo.tgz
lcd /tmp/
get foo.tgz
Then, you will be able to tell sftp to execute those commands in one connection, by executing:
sftp -b commands.txt $user#$host
So, I propose your solution to be:
With user's input, create a temporary text file which contains all the commands to be executed over one SFTP connection, then
Execute sftp using that temporary text file as "batch file"
Your script would do something like:
echo "Directory in which to go:"
read directory
temp=$( mktemp /tmp/FOOXXX )
echo "" > $temp
echo "cd $directory" >> $temp
# other commands
sftp -b $temp $user#$host
rm $temp
If you are trying to change the directory of the machine, try lcd
In what way is it not working? To change directories on the remote server, you use the "cd" command. To change directories on the local server, you use the "lcd" command. Read "man sftp".