So I do have a file that I generate weekly from a server using crontab in Linux side and transfer it to my PC. However, I am having a problem when try to send the file that I generate from a different server on Windows side using task scheduler.
Your command-line syntax is wrong.
I'm assuming the \ftpBinverlog_%yyyy%-%mm%-%dd%.txt is the file, you want to download.
It won't work, if you just specify it on command-line like you did.
Also neither Windows scheduler, nor command-interpreter, nor WinSCP understand syntax like %yyyy%.
The path to the remote file does not look good either. *nix systems use forward slashes, not backslashes.
So just keep your /script and /log arguments:
/script=C:\batchrun\Binver\script.tmp /log="C:\BIN VERIFICATION\ftplog"
And make sure the script.tmp looks like:
open sftp://user#example.com
get /ftpBinverlog_%TIMESTAMP#yyyy-mm-dd%.txt C:\target_path\
exit
References:
Guide to automating file transfer from SFTP server
%TIMESTAMP syntax.
Develop a batch file which will download/upload the required file using the SCP command
check this for more details.
check this for more details about the scp command parameters.
Make sure that you are able to run the batch with a successful result, then configure it within a scheduled task.
I hope this could help.
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First of all, I am not an expert programmer, and I don't know much of the programmer's lingo. So please bear with me.
I am using Cygwin on windows, to copy a file from home directory to a remote server (which uses Linux) using SCP. I need to do this every day and so I want to automate it. I know how to schedule tasks in task scheduler, but I don't know what kind of file to save an scp command as. Please help? Oh and I don't have admin access, so I cannot install or use third party applications
First add Cygwin to your Windows Environment Variables. You can find directions on how to do that here (the directions you need are almost all the way at the bottom of the page). Now you should be able to run Linux commands from the command prompt. Simply make a .bat file in notepad with the commands you need to run. It should look something like this:
scp /cygdrive/d/test.txt <linux ip>:/etc/var/test/test.txt
Then use task scheduler to run the .bat file.
I have program in Unix that generates files 8 files at 8:30 pm everyday.
I need to download the files into my Windows machine after the files are generated using WinSCP.
I can drag and drop those but its time consuming, I need to automate this process.
I cannot use .Net assembly to download those.
I have tried to use the get command, but its throwing error: Not an SCCS file.
Let me know how can I solve this.
--Thanks
To automate a task using WinSCP, use its scripting interface from a batch file (e.g. download.bat).
I assume you want to use SFTP, as you are connecting to a *nix server.
The simplest download batch file is like:
winscp.com /log=c:\path\to\log\winscp.log /command ^
"open sftp://username:password#example.com/ -hostkey=""xxx""" ^
"get /path/to/file.ext c:\path\to\download\to\" ^
"exit"
Replace the username, password and example.com with the actual connection details. Get the value of -hostkey switch from your GUI session. Use real paths.
Though it's easier to have WinSCP generate the batch file for you.
For details see a guide to automating file transfers from SFTP server using WinSCP.
Once you have the batch file working, schedule the the batch file execution using Windows scheduler.
See a guide to scheduling file transfers from SFTP server.
I can't figure out why the ftp site isn't getting 2 files, both of which match the wildcard MGET command. It almost appears there is a interactive prompt issue, (and yes, I've searched S.O. for other threads, which is why I'm now using the -i switch), but somehow when I do it manually - the EXACT SAME COMMAND, I can see that the server is prompting me.
When I use my batch file to automate it and refer to a command file, it acts offended that I can't interact with it, and it does not download the file. A screenshot of how it looks when I use the batch file is attached.
Any ideas?
I currently connect to my UNIX installed on my remote server using Secure CRT. I have a script(sh) on my UNIX which generates a file. I need to su(switch user) before executing the script.
I then ftp to this server(using ftp commands in command prompt on windows) and get the file generated by the above shell script.
However, I would like to automate this process and create a windows .bat file which would connect me to the UNIX server, su and run the required shell script and fetch the file.
I have found that I cannot run the shell script on UNIX using ftp. Could you please suggest me alternate ways to automate this?
Thanks
Thanks for your help guys :) I created a script on secure CRT and while running the application using the bat file, I'm calling this script using the CRT command line options
I need to handle remote file on a ftp server via commons-net-1.4.1.jar,class org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient.It's seems that no api available to change a file's permission,just like unix shell command chmod.
Anyone know any solution to resolve this issue?
FTP doesn't have a command for such operations, since the operation is platform-specific. If your library supports this, you can try using SITE command and pass the command line as a parameter of SITE command. Some servers support this trick to run shell commands.