Hi folks,
I want to copy the file from remote server to my system for that i had written the shell script
scp user@ip source destination
it is working fine

but now i had to copy the file from two different file locations in the remote machine

for that i had written the two times
scp user@ip source destination
scp user@ip source1 destination1

but what is happening that it is creating the file not copying the content of the file

it is just copying the content of the first file itself only

Hi and welcome to LQ.

That second file might be not synced to the file system and so information for the file might be unavailable for the copy operation.

I believe that SCP would give you an error if the file did not exist for copying.

If possible, could you post an example of this problem?

Welcome. "scp" needs to have the user and hostname associated with the path+file name to know which machine to copy to or from. So what you probably mean is either this to copy from remote to local:

or this to copy from local to remote:

"scp" is good if you want to copy the whole file each and every time. If you have a file that updates but otherwise stays the same, then "rsync" over SSH is a better choice.

Check the manual page for "scp" for the details.

Thanks for the reply
actually i had created a shell script in i had used
spawn scp copying command

in that i had to copy two files from two different folders so i had written two time scp command for copying the files what is happening that first file it is copying but in case of second file one file is created but it is empty file no conent is present in it.


If required tell i will share the the file to

As I always say, you can add "set -xv" to your script to enable verbose debugging for the script. You should run it from a terminal/command line (those are just different terms to describe the same thing, sorry many people question what the meaning of those are sometimes, you likely know this already, no offense intended). Within the command line you'll see the verbose output of each action for your script, plus you'll see any errors generated.

Please make sure that the second file exists on the system it is being copied from and that the file has content in it. I think you have indicated that you feel this is true. I'd recommend you try this with yet a third file. Please also verify that the second file is not a directory, there is a -r flag to use with scp to recurse into directories. Perhaps also this is permissions. Does the scp user have permissions to read files from that other directory?

yes file exist on the other server if file doest not exist then it would give the error that file does not exist

Can you post your exact script, minus any sensitive parts? From what you first posted above, the syntax you are trying to use for "scp" is not quite right and it would be helpful to see exactly what you have.

spawn scp root@10.207.16.45:/u02/opt/logs/mk_prod.out .
expect "*root@10.20.1.5's password:" {
send "password\r"
expect "\r"
expect "*\r"
}

spawn scp root@100.20.1.5:/u02/opt/weblogic/do...ogs/access.log .

expect "*root@100.20.1.5's password:" {
send "password\r"
expect "\r"
expect "*\r"
}

here i am trying to automate the process of copying so using expect and send command for it
mk_prod.out is getting copied but not access.log
for checking purpose i had also verified it by placing acess.log at first at that time access.log is also getting copied

only the file which at the top is getting copied only

Ok. By the way, keys are the safer way to do the connecting.

Do both instances of "scp" actually work when you try them manually?