Command For Name Of Host Machine At the sftp>

[Raymond Ford]

What is the command for the name of the host machine at the sftp> prompt?

[Pete Randall]

Normally it's uname. Try "uname -n".


Pete

[RAC_1]

on sftp prompt, if you type ?/help it should give you all commands supported.

Check it.

Anil

[Mel Burslan]

on regular ftp interface if you issue command status, on the first line of output you can see the name of the host you are connected to. I do not think sftp user interface is any different

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

Not sure about sftp, but the command in ftp is
ftp> status
First line of the output will be the hostname.

HTH,
Jeff

[Denver Osborn]

I don't know of any sftp cmd to show what host you'r logged into. You could either get a file from the host and look for the hostname, or escape to a shell and see where you're going to.


sfpt> lcd /tmp
sftp> get /etc/rc.config.d/netconf
sftp> !grep HOSTNAME netconf

or

sftp> !
ps |grep sftp
ps -ef |grep PID-of-sftp |grep ssh


-denver

[Colin Topliss]

Hmm.

! opens a local shell (ie a shell on the system you initiated the connection from, not the machine you connected to).

So, sftp from machine_A to machine_B,
!uname -n
will give you machine_A

But you know what system you are on, and what you're connecting to already, right???

Best think I can think of (assuming this is part of a script) is to run an ssh command first:

ssh user@machine_B uname -n

Then do your sftp. Takes an extra connection, but it will work if the name of machine_B is what you are after.

[Tom Dineen_2]

when I run sftp.exe from my desktop, it shows me:

fsftp: no hostname specified; use "open host.name" to connect

enter: help

enter: open
you should see login prompt, like:




some tricks might be:

lcd change to local client dir

!pwd list client's working dir