Because of technical limitations on a pair of platforms I’m using at work, I am unable to set-up key-based SFTP or SCP to transfer files between the pair of them, so I knocked together this short script using the TCL based Expect language.
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| #!/usr/bin/expect | |
| set arg1 [lindex $argv 0] | |
| set arg2 [lindex $argv 1] | |
| set arg3 [lindex $argv 2] | |
| set timeout 1000 | |
| spawn sftp "$arg2" | |
| expect { | |
| yes { | |
| send "yes\r" | |
| exp_continue | |
| } | |
| ass { | |
| send "$arg3\r" | |
| exp_continue | |
| } | |
| sftp { | |
| send "put $arg1\r" | |
| expect { | |
| 100% { | |
| send "quit\r" | |
| exp_continue | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } |
There’s no error checking here, which isn’t great, but as a quick-and-dirty script to SFTP files to a box which needs the password each run… it works! :)
