SFTP script, status of the proccess

solar05 · 07-07-2009, 04:36 AM

Hi. I have to copy between two hosts files via sftp.
I did some bash script

Code:

sftp -b /dev/fd/0 $TARGET_USER@$TARGET_HOST:$TARGET_DIR>>$FTPLOG 2>&1<<EOT
mput *.zip
chmod 666 *.zip
exit
EOT

status=$?					#status of process SFTP
if [ $status -eq 0 ]                       # if 0 then SUCCESS
then
	
    echo "Everything is good"
else
  	
echo "Error while copying the files"
fi

This script look's good, but when while sftp working my network connection
could break, and sftp session hung... and script didn't work.
Help me to resolve this problem.

unSpawn · 07-07-2009, 06:27 AM

You could "encapsulate" the actual SFTP command ("cmdSftp() { sftp doSomething; }") so that some other process ("cmdTimer() { watchThisProcess; }") can start it and track process status. And please keep your posts on the same subject together (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...f-sftp-738233/).

Niartov · 07-08-2009, 08:23 PM

Look into using an expect script.