Hi, I have never used sftp, but from the man page it looks like the sftp commands need to be in a separate file. Something like:
fetch2.sh: #!/bin/sh sftp -b /home/jungle/batchfile jungle@host /home/jungle/batchfile: cd /home/jungle put file_*.csv aaa_completed If it were me, I would just use scp in my crontab, something like: 0 1 * * * /usr/bin/scp /home/jungle/file_*csv jungle@host:/usr/home/jungle/ ...or maybe rsync if the file is large. -Barry On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:07 PM, jungle Boogie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Running Openssh's sftp version 3 on both client and server but the OS > is not openBSD. > > I want to upload a file automatically with a cron job so I'm using the -b > flag. > > % cat fetch2.sh > #!/bin/sh > > cd /home/jungle > put file_*.csv aaa_completed > > > I can't specify the file name completely because it changes monthly > (based on the month & year), but using batch file results in the file > not being uploaded. When I connect directly, I can use the * just > fine: > > % sftp jungle@host > Connected to host. > sftp> cd home/jungle > sftp> put file_*.csv > Uploading file_foo2015-05-15.csv to > /usr/home/jungle/file_foo2015-05-15.csv > file_foo2015-05-15.csv > > > > Any ideas how I can achieve the latter with the former? > > Thanks, > Jungle > > -- > ------- > inum: 883510009027723 > sip: [email protected] > xmpp: [email protected]
