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Matt
Matt

Reputation: 1032

Bash scp several files password issue

I am trying to copy several files from a remote server into local drive in Bash using scp. Here's the part of the code

scp -r -q $USR@$IP:/home/file1.txt $PWD
scp -r -q $USR@$IP:/home/file2.txt $PWD
scp -r -q $USR@$IP:/root/file3.txt $PWD

However, the problem is that EVERY time that it wants to copy a file, it keeps asking for the password of the server, which is the same. I want it to ask only once and then copy all my files.

And please, do not suggest rsync nor making a key authentication file since I do not want to do that. Are there any other ways...? Any help would be appreciated

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5683

Answers (3)

Jack
Jack

Reputation: 6158

Well, in this particular case, you can write...

scp -q $USR@$IP:/home/file[1-3].txt $PWD

Upvotes: 0

w00d
w00d

Reputation: 5596

You can use expect script or sshpass

sshpass -p 'password' scp ...

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn scp ...
expect "password:"
send "ur_password"

An disadvantage is that your password is now in plaintext

Upvotes: 1

Gigline
Gigline

Reputation: 297

I'm assuming that if you can scp files from the remote server, you can also ssh in and create a tarball of the remote files.

The -r flag is recursive, for copying entire directories but your listing distinct files in your command, so -r becomes superfluous.

Try this from the bash shell on the remote system:

$ mkdir /home/file_mover
$ cp /home/file1.txt /home/file_mover/
$ cp /home/file2.txt /home/file_mover/
$ cp /root/file3.txt /home/file_mover/

$ tar -cvf /home/myTarball.tar /home/file_mover/

$ scp -q $USR@$IP:/home/myTarball.tar  $PWD

Upvotes: 0

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