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bashsshexpectrsync
rahuL
rahuL

Reputation: 3420

bash and expect - doesn't take port while rsyncing

I have a simple script as follows which uses expect to rsync some data (over ssh). The code is as follows:

local_path1="/root/accordingtojim.txt"
username="ih4d35"
ip="10.0.0.152"
port="22"
password="t3tr@h3dr0n"

echo "$local_path1 $username $ip $port $password"

expect -c 'spawn rsync -avz -e "ssh -p $port" $local_path1 $username\@$ip:~/; expect '*?assword:*' {send \"$password\r\"; interact};'

This is the error I get:

can't read "port": no such variable
    while executing
"spawn rsync -avz -e "ssh -p $port" $local_path1 $username\@$ip:~/"

The echo statement works fine though.

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 492

Answers (1)

Tim Potter
Tim Potter

Reputation: 2457

Shell variables aren't expanded between single quotes, so get rid of them and replace the nested quotes with escaped ones:

expect -c "spawn rsync -avz -e \"ssh -p $port\" $local_path1 $username\@$ip:~/; expect '*?assword:*' {send \"$password\r\"; interact};"

Upvotes: 3

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