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I want to write a script to do the file transfer using SFTP. How to pass pasword to SFTP in the script. So that i can schedule the for automating file transfer.
Kindly provide me a solution for this.
Thanks In Advance
Dhanju
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I want to write a script to do the file transfer using SFTP. How to pass pasword to SFTP in the script. So that i can schedule the for automating file transfer.
Kindly provide me a solution for this.
Since it's using SSH, you should be able to do an SSH keyswap between the machines. You don't say what you're writing the script/program in, or on what version of linux, so it's hard to "kindly provide you a solution", but if it's PERL, check out the Net::SFTP module on CPAN.
I know we don't typically link to a different forum, but there's a nice scripting example snippet in the UNIX Shell programming scripting forum for using key based authentication in a sftp script.
You do realize two things about this thread, right? First is that it is getting near 15 years old. Second that FTP is the wrong solution for just about anything these days and the correct answer was the SFTP client using the -i and -b options or setting the equivalent in ~/.ssh/config. It's 2023, don't use FTP.
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