topic Re: script to sftp using "variable" id in Operating System - HP-UX

script to sftp using "variable" id

so.nimda — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:46:46 GMT

Hi,

In the 'sftp' command, how do I replace the user ID with a variable?

sftp -b scriptname user@host

The "@host" is always the same. Many servers are sending files to this destination - the source user ID varies.

The intention is to use hostname to identify which user to do the sftp. This way, I can use the same script for different systems - just need to add the host and corresponding user id in an 'if-then-else' construct.

Is it possible?

Thanks

Re: script to sftp using "variable" id

Mark McDonald_2 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:49:56 GMT

Have you tried simply using $user as you would in a script?

user=MarkM

sftp -b scriptname $user@host

Not near a box to try this at the moment though

Re: script to sftp using "variable" id

Steven Schweda — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:52:56 GMT

Uh, same as any other string and any other
variable?

user=fred
sftp -b scriptname "$user"@host

> The intention is to use hostname to
> identify which user to do the sftp.

Huh? Am I dense, or was that unclear?

Re: script to sftp using "variable" id

Suraj K Sankari — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:08:19 GMT

Hi,
What I understand that you want to send a file to some special users in the same host.
If this is right then take users name into a file
#cat myusers
user1
user4
user5
user8

now at the command prompt or save this code into a file
#cat myscript
for i in `cat myusers`
do
scp myfile $i@hostname
Done

now run this script as
#sh ./myscript

Suraj

Re: script to sftp using "variable" id

so.nimda — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:21:16 GMT

@ mark, your solution worked... thanks...

@ Steven, different host use different user ID to sftp the file,
that's why I'm using the hostname to identify which user to use...
e.g. user John in host B12, user Pete in host J29, etc

@Suraj, thanks for the solution...

Re: script to sftp using "variable" id

so.nimda — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:23:03 GMT

solution provided