Automate sftp file transfer unix

History of old FTP transfers. How can one find the name and size of files ftp'ed during an old ftp transfer. Is there any log where these details are stored or any UNIX command which can provide these details. Thanks in advance. How to automate an FTP process? Hello script experts, I am newbie to shell script. But I have to write a shell script ASAP where I need to ftp a file on daily basis to a remote server, and send an email with final status.

I I should have a properties file with hostname, Userid, and pwd. And a shall script file should read Hi all, I got this piece of code in this forum and I can't seem to get it work.

The thread already closed so I just post a new thread. Hi, I am trying to write and automate a ftp job that connects to a IBM mainframe and pulls the same files everyday. To do this I assumen I create a. How do I envoke ftp from a ksh script and pass it the info in. RedHat Commands. Am I missing something here? Off the top, a couple of options: A Are you running Samba on the Unix box? If so, the Windows machine could just write this file to a shared folder on the Unix side.

Never tried it though. I did try installing Cygwin on my local machine. We were previously using telnet for this operation, but recently, due to an OS Upgrade, we have moved onto putty. Configure SFTP with public key authentication. Follow this link. I did this using normal ftp command. For that we write all information in a text file, like username, password, get or put command with path and bye also to come out from FTP session.

All in separate line. Below is the example. Yes, we did. We are looking at an alternative way of doing this. Hi Michael, No. We do not have samba installed on the Unix box. Psftp would be the preferred mode of operation. Last edited by dangral; at PM.. Reason: added security warning. Thanks again. Unfortunately, the command ssh-keygen does not work on my machine. It gives me the error: ssh-keygen not found.

I guess I need to call my system admin and maybe get something installed, right??? Originally Posted by dangral. What the link in my previous post said is: You would not be putting a password file after sftp -b, you would be putting your standard-in device or a file with all the ftp commands.

So on solaris, your script might look like this: Code :. You are using F-Secure sftp. Try using -B instead of -b. Sftp automate. There is some logic to download files. Automate sftp process using script. Hi, guys, I am trying to automate a sftp process using "expect" method since the key authentication method is disabled in my company network, there is no helping it. SFTP script to automate login in to remote server. Greetings, guys.

I'm not much of a programmer forgive me for being a noob, because of someone leaving, I was put in an IT spot where I have to figure out a few things. Being new to Linux and programming has been a challenge. My boss has asked me to create an automated script to connect to a 3rd Using expect to automate sftp.

I am trying to use a for loop in my expect cmdFile that I am calling. I want to be able to call either one file name or a series of file names in the working directory that I won't know the names before hand and then pass the names to the sftp program.

I have configured sftp and can exchange files in command prompt. So with the above explanation we know using batch file we can automate SFTP file transfers with scripts for both the situations. I have already shared step by step guide to setup SFTP in my previous article with chroot jail and.

I have taken the template of below script from Wicked Cool Scripts and modified it to transfer files without prompting password. You can follow the additional comments I have added in the script to understand the overall functionality. We will create some new files under our source directory on server1.

So all the files were transferred successfully using batch file with SFTP script without prompting password. Next if we try to re-run the script, then you see since there are no newer files to transfer, the script does nothing.