SFTP in a script

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi

I need to write a script which should make SFTP connection with one server.
Download some files and then exit.

Can we do this? I know this is possible with FTP but is it is possible with SFTP too?

Can you please provide some example?

Regards
Kapil

2

Using ssh keys all you need to do is something like:

scp login@server:/path/file/to/download /path/to/file/downloaded

(do not forget scp option -r for folders, or * for multilple files with a common pattern)

3

Use ssh keybased authentication to enable login with out password.

sftp server << 01
#commands to be executed for file transfer
get file
01

or like Cabrao said use scp. for both to work in script, you have to enabled keybased authentication.

4

How do you do this?