sftp

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

Can you please tell me what the below command does

cat <<EOF1 > $tmp1
binary
lcd $targetDir
cd ${remoteDir}
ls
quit
EOF1

cat $tmp1
set -x
sftp6 -P 2246  -B $tmp1 --password=file://<ctl>/.gspass | tee outputfile

Actually my requirement is if the sftp succeed, then only it has to right the output other send an eroor output.

Please help me with ur suggestions.

2

To my knowledge FTP/SFTP if it can run will always be a success...
So if you need more, you will have to find a way of testing (not ftp command for it will be successfull...) that suits your need...

By the way, avoid cyber chat style language here

3

the remote server may be down at times, that time, it should not write the output of the sftp to a file, it should return error. If it is successfully connected the server, then the output should be written to a file

Code:
cat <<EOF1 > $tmp1
binary
lcd $targetDir
cd ${remoteDir}
ls
quit
EOF1

cat $tmp1
set -x

sftp6 -P 2246 -B $tmp1 --password=file://<ctl>/.gspass | tee outputfile

Now the code is writing all kind of data (either successfully connected / failed to fetch data) into the output file. It should not be the case.

Can anyone please let me know any suggestion.

4

Why should it not ?( what about using code tags then...)
I see nothing in your code saying not to...
Remember my first post?