lftp + bash variables

sycamorex · 07-14-2008, 05:42 PM

I'd like to create a simple script, something like that:

Code:

vim $1
lftp -c 'open -e "put $1" sycamorex@192.168.1.102:/data/notes/'

But lftp doesn't see $1 as a variable and treats it literally:

Code:

put: /home/xtd8865/notes/autoup/$1: No such file or directory

If I replace 'put $1' with a file name in this directory, everything works.

any hints

thanks

pxsnet · 07-14-2008, 08:31 PM

single quotation marks are used so no var substitution happens.

sycamorex · 07-15-2008, 04:11 PM

I might have not been clear as to what I'd like to do. I do want var substitution to happen.
Instead of the file called $1, I want lftp to substitute the $1 variable and upload the file the file
that was created as the $1 argument of my script.

any ideas?
thanks

colucix · 07-15-2008, 04:44 PM

What pxsnet was trying to explain is that the embedding single quotes around the lftp command - as in your statement - prevent variable substitution. In alternative to the one-line syntax, you can try with a "here document":

Code:

lftp << EOF
open 192.168.1.102
cd /data/notes
put $1
bye
EOF

sycamorex · 07-16-2008, 05:57 PM

thanks, it works fine.