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Naura
Naura

Reputation: 65

How do I get the files from SFTP server and move them to another folder in bash script?

How do I get the one by one files from SFTP server and move them to another folder in Ubuntu bash script?

#!bin/sh
FOLDER=/home/SFTP/Folder1/    

sftp SFTP@ip_address    
cd /home/FSTP/Folder1/    
for file in "$FOLDER"*
<<EOF
cd /home/local/Folder1
get $file
EOF
mv $file /home/SFTP/Done
done

I know it's not right, but I've tried my best and if anyone can help me, I will appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 19875

Answers (3)

Markus07
Markus07

Reputation: 11

Use rsync https://rsync.samba.org/

rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST:DEST

rsync SFTP@ip_address:/home/FSTP/Folder1/* /home/SFTP/Done/

To move files add option --remove-source-files

rsync --remove-source-files SFTP@ip_address:/home/FSTP/Folder1/* /home/SFTP/Done/

Upvotes: 0

Martin Prikryl
Martin Prikryl

Reputation: 202514

OpenSSH sftp is not very powerful client for such tasks. You would have to run it twice. First to collect list of files, use the list to generate list of commands, and execute those in a second run.

Something like this:

# Collect list of files
files=`sftp -b - [email protected] <<EOF
cd /source/folder
ls
EOF`
files=`echo $files|sed "s/.*sftp> ls//"` 

# Use the list to generate list of commands for the second run
(
  echo cd /source/folder
  for file in $files; do
    echo get $file
    echo rename $file /backup/folder/$file
  done
) | sftp -b - [email protected]

Before you run the script on production files, I suggest, you first output the generated command list to a file to check, if the results are as expected.

Just replace the last line with:

) > commands.txt

Upvotes: 3

Sascha Trumm
Sascha Trumm

Reputation: 11

Maybe use SFTP internal command.

sftp get -r $remote_path $local_path

OR with the -f option to flush files to disk

sftp get -rf $remote_path $local_path

Upvotes: 0

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