Unable to mput all the files through sftp in the remote server using expect












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I'm trying to mput all files present in the directory : /Test/XML/ into a remote sftp server with the help of expect utility.



I've around 320 files in the directory: /Test/XML/.



The size of each file is around 0.1 MB.



There's no error observed.



Here's my code:



cd /Test/XML/



/usr/bin/expect <<EOF

spawn /usr/bin/sftp ${user_name}@${HOSTNAME}

expect "password:"

send "${passwd}r"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd /testr"

expect "sftp>"

send "mkdir XMLr"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd /test/XMLr"

expect "sftp>"

send "mput *r"

expect "sftp>"

send "byer"

EOF


But the problem here is, mput * is transferring only 4 files instead of transferring all the 320 files.
Not sure, why it's not able to transfer all the 320 files in the remote server.



Any help is most welcome.






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  • did you get any error before exist the script ?? i mean connection aborted or something related to proxy ?

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:01













  • Did you check if you can turn off interactive prompting (PROMPT command)?

    – Mark Setchell
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:04











  • you can also try recursive by replacing mput with put -r * so that it will transfer files along with folder if any.

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:06











  • @ThiruShetty: I ran the script in debug mode.There's no error observed. I need to transfer files only.

    – A.K
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:16











  • all files with same extension ?? like .xml ?

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:19
















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I'm trying to mput all files present in the directory : /Test/XML/ into a remote sftp server with the help of expect utility.



I've around 320 files in the directory: /Test/XML/.



The size of each file is around 0.1 MB.



There's no error observed.



Here's my code:



cd /Test/XML/



/usr/bin/expect <<EOF

spawn /usr/bin/sftp ${user_name}@${HOSTNAME}

expect "password:"

send "${passwd}r"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd /testr"

expect "sftp>"

send "mkdir XMLr"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd /test/XMLr"

expect "sftp>"

send "mput *r"

expect "sftp>"

send "byer"

EOF


But the problem here is, mput * is transferring only 4 files instead of transferring all the 320 files.
Not sure, why it's not able to transfer all the 320 files in the remote server.



Any help is most welcome.






linux bash sftp expect







share|improve this question

























  • did you get any error before exist the script ?? i mean connection aborted or something related to proxy ?

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:01













  • Did you check if you can turn off interactive prompting (PROMPT command)?

    – Mark Setchell
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:04











  • you can also try recursive by replacing mput with put -r * so that it will transfer files along with folder if any.

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:06











  • @ThiruShetty: I ran the script in debug mode.There's no error observed. I need to transfer files only.

    – A.K
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:16











  • all files with same extension ?? like .xml ?

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:19














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I'm trying to mput all files present in the directory : /Test/XML/ into a remote sftp server with the help of expect utility.



I've around 320 files in the directory: /Test/XML/.



The size of each file is around 0.1 MB.



There's no error observed.



Here's my code:



cd /Test/XML/



/usr/bin/expect <<EOF

spawn /usr/bin/sftp ${user_name}@${HOSTNAME}

expect "password:"

send "${passwd}r"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd /testr"

expect "sftp>"

send "mkdir XMLr"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd /test/XMLr"

expect "sftp>"

send "mput *r"

expect "sftp>"

send "byer"

EOF


But the problem here is, mput * is transferring only 4 files instead of transferring all the 320 files.
Not sure, why it's not able to transfer all the 320 files in the remote server.



Any help is most welcome.






linux bash sftp expect







share|improve this question
















I'm trying to mput all files present in the directory : /Test/XML/ into a remote sftp server with the help of expect utility.



I've around 320 files in the directory: /Test/XML/.



The size of each file is around 0.1 MB.



There's no error observed.



Here's my code:



cd /Test/XML/



/usr/bin/expect <<EOF

spawn /usr/bin/sftp ${user_name}@${HOSTNAME}

expect "password:"

send "${passwd}r"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd /testr"

expect "sftp>"

send "mkdir XMLr"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd /test/XMLr"

expect "sftp>"

send "mput *r"

expect "sftp>"

send "byer"

EOF


But the problem here is, mput * is transferring only 4 files instead of transferring all the 320 files.
Not sure, why it's not able to transfer all the 320 files in the remote server.



Any help is most welcome.






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  • did you get any error before exist the script ?? i mean connection aborted or something related to proxy ?

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:01













  • Did you check if you can turn off interactive prompting (PROMPT command)?

    – Mark Setchell
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:04











  • you can also try recursive by replacing mput with put -r * so that it will transfer files along with folder if any.

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:06











  • @ThiruShetty: I ran the script in debug mode.There's no error observed. I need to transfer files only.

    – A.K
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:16











  • all files with same extension ?? like .xml ?

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:19



















  • did you get any error before exist the script ?? i mean connection aborted or something related to proxy ?

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:01













  • Did you check if you can turn off interactive prompting (PROMPT command)?

    – Mark Setchell
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:04











  • you can also try recursive by replacing mput with put -r * so that it will transfer files along with folder if any.

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:06











  • @ThiruShetty: I ran the script in debug mode.There's no error observed. I need to transfer files only.

    – A.K
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:16











  • all files with same extension ?? like .xml ?

    – ntshetty
    Nov 15 '18 at 9:19

















did you get any error before exist the script ?? i mean connection aborted or something related to proxy ?

– ntshetty
Nov 15 '18 at 9:01







did you get any error before exist the script ?? i mean connection aborted or something related to proxy ?

– ntshetty
Nov 15 '18 at 9:01















Did you check if you can turn off interactive prompting (PROMPT command)?

– Mark Setchell
Nov 15 '18 at 9:04





Did you check if you can turn off interactive prompting (PROMPT command)?

– Mark Setchell
Nov 15 '18 at 9:04













you can also try recursive by replacing mput with put -r * so that it will transfer files along with folder if any.

– ntshetty
Nov 15 '18 at 9:06





you can also try recursive by replacing mput with put -r * so that it will transfer files along with folder if any.

– ntshetty
Nov 15 '18 at 9:06













@ThiruShetty: I ran the script in debug mode.There's no error observed. I need to transfer files only.

– A.K
Nov 15 '18 at 9:16





@ThiruShetty: I ran the script in debug mode.There's no error observed. I need to transfer files only.

– A.K
Nov 15 '18 at 9:16













all files with same extension ?? like .xml ?

– ntshetty
Nov 15 '18 at 9:19





all files with same extension ?? like .xml ?

– ntshetty
Nov 15 '18 at 9:19












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Thanks @ThiruShetty for the hint of using set timeout -1 in the expect utility.



Actually, i had a lot of files(~320-350) to be transferred(sftp) to a remote server.
With the normal execution of sftp using expect utility, it was able to transfer only a few files, not all of them which i wanted.



After inserting set timeout -1 inside expect, it solved the problem of timeout.



Here's the final code:



cd /Test/XML/



/usr/bin/expect <<EOF

set timeout -1

spawn /usr/bin/sftp ${user_name}@${HOSTNAME}

expect "password:"

send "${passwd}r"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd /testr"

expect "sftp>"

send "mkdir XMLr"

expect "sftp>"

send "cd /test/XMLr"

expect "sftp>"

send "mput *r"

expect "sftp>"

send "byer"

EOF





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    Thanks @ThiruShetty for the hint of using set timeout -1 in the expect utility.



    Actually, i had a lot of files(~320-350) to be transferred(sftp) to a remote server.
    With the normal execution of sftp using expect utility, it was able to transfer only a few files, not all of them which i wanted.



    After inserting set timeout -1 inside expect, it solved the problem of timeout.



    Here's the final code:



    cd /Test/XML/
    

    
/usr/bin/expect <<EOF
    
set timeout -1
    
spawn /usr/bin/sftp ${user_name}@${HOSTNAME}
    
expect "password:"
    
send "${passwd}r"
    
expect "sftp>"
    
send "cd /testr"
    
expect "sftp>"
    
send "mkdir XMLr"
    
expect "sftp>"
    
send "cd /test/XMLr"
    
expect "sftp>"
    
send "mput *r"
    
expect "sftp>"
    
send "byer"
    
EOF





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      Thanks @ThiruShetty for the hint of using set timeout -1 in the expect utility.



      Actually, i had a lot of files(~320-350) to be transferred(sftp) to a remote server.
      With the normal execution of sftp using expect utility, it was able to transfer only a few files, not all of them which i wanted.



      After inserting set timeout -1 inside expect, it solved the problem of timeout.



      Here's the final code:



      cd /Test/XML/
      

      
/usr/bin/expect <<EOF
      
set timeout -1
      
spawn /usr/bin/sftp ${user_name}@${HOSTNAME}
      
expect "password:"
      
send "${passwd}r"
      
expect "sftp>"
      
send "cd /testr"
      
expect "sftp>"
      
send "mkdir XMLr"
      
expect "sftp>"
      
send "cd /test/XMLr"
      
expect "sftp>"
      
send "mput *r"
      
expect "sftp>"
      
send "byer"
      
EOF





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        Thanks @ThiruShetty for the hint of using set timeout -1 in the expect utility.



        Actually, i had a lot of files(~320-350) to be transferred(sftp) to a remote server.
        With the normal execution of sftp using expect utility, it was able to transfer only a few files, not all of them which i wanted.



        After inserting set timeout -1 inside expect, it solved the problem of timeout.



        Here's the final code:



        cd /Test/XML/
        

        
/usr/bin/expect <<EOF
        
set timeout -1
        
spawn /usr/bin/sftp ${user_name}@${HOSTNAME}
        
expect "password:"
        
send "${passwd}r"
        
expect "sftp>"
        
send "cd /testr"
        
expect "sftp>"
        
send "mkdir XMLr"
        
expect "sftp>"
        
send "cd /test/XMLr"
        
expect "sftp>"
        
send "mput *r"
        
expect "sftp>"
        
send "byer"
        
EOF





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        Thanks @ThiruShetty for the hint of using set timeout -1 in the expect utility.



        Actually, i had a lot of files(~320-350) to be transferred(sftp) to a remote server.
        With the normal execution of sftp using expect utility, it was able to transfer only a few files, not all of them which i wanted.



        After inserting set timeout -1 inside expect, it solved the problem of timeout.



        Here's the final code:



        cd /Test/XML/
        

        
/usr/bin/expect <<EOF
        
set timeout -1
        
spawn /usr/bin/sftp ${user_name}@${HOSTNAME}
        
expect "password:"
        
send "${passwd}r"
        
expect "sftp>"
        
send "cd /testr"
        
expect "sftp>"
        
send "mkdir XMLr"
        
expect "sftp>"
        
send "cd /test/XMLr"
        
expect "sftp>"
        
send "mput *r"
        
expect "sftp>"
        
send "byer"
        
EOF






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