How to exit from automated FTP process on failure

igsunny · 09-06-2011, 03:29 PM

Hi Everybody,

I have the following script. It set as a cron job. It works fine if the file is present on the server, but if it is not, the script hangs.
How can I trap the failure and then exit from the script?

#! /bin/bash
# Get the new pgp files...
sftp username@ftp4.server.com <<EOF
cd abc/ToScripNet
get abc*.txt.pgp
rm abc*.txt.pgp
!EOF

exit

colucix · 09-06-2011, 04:09 PM

The exclamation mark before the closing EOF is not needed (it results in a command not found error). Try to remove it and add a quit statement to gracefully close the sftp session.

igsunny · 09-06-2011, 04:14 PM

Unfortunately, I am still having the same problem:

Couldn't delete file: No such file or directory

schneidz · 09-06-2011, 04:27 PM

is it possible to just use scp with keys or are you married to ftp ?

igsunny · 09-06-2011, 04:31 PM

I can not use anything but FTP