How to get files from multiple servers in an easy script

[thijs lankhorst_1]

Hello, i just started to learn a bit about scripting and would like to know what the best way would be to extract multiple files (ftp?) from multiple servers (remsh?) to the local server. The files are CISAM files but need to be flatfiles once extracted. Is there an easy way of doing this using somthing like a loop? Please can you help.

[Steve Steel]

Hi


Go to www.shelldorado.com and look at
http://www.shelldorado.com/scripts/cmds/transfer.ftp.txt



That is a good base for you




Steve Steel

[thijs lankhorst_1]

Thanks Steve,had a look at it and found the website v usefull

[Rodney Hills · Accepted solution]

If you get a copy of OpenSSH, you could use the "scp" command. Example-

scp remotehost1:/path/file1 /tmp/newfile1
scp remotehost2:/path/file2 /tmp/newfile2

ftp and remsh have potential security problems.

If you have a lot of files on a lot of hosts and you need to run a process on the remote hosts, then you could use "ssh". example-

for h in remotehost1 remotehost2 ; do
for f in /myfile1 /myfile2 ; do
ssh $h "/myconvert $f >/tmp/out; scp -q /tmp/out orighost:/tmp/$h/$f"
done
done

This will loop through a list of remotehosts and files, run a "convert" program on the file, then transfer the converted file back to the original host.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Geoff Wild]

I do this with rcp as bb userid to grad cfg2html files and store on intranet server:

# cat rcpgetdoc
#!/bin/sh
cd /htdocs/server-files
HOSTS=`cat bbhosts`

for i in $HOSTS; do
SFILE=${i}.html
rcp ${i}:/opt/cfg2html/$SFILE .
chmod 644 $SFILE
done


Rgds...Geoff

[Jan Sladky]

Hi, you can also use folowing simple way

/usr/bin/ftp -i -n -v < /ftp_sundance1.txt

cat ftp_sundance1.txt
open 10.32.113.177
user sweet qqqqqq
bin
hash
prompt off
cd $PATH
dir
mget file
bye

open 10.32.113.178
user sweet qqqqqq
bin
hash
prompt off
cd $PATH
dir
mget file
bye

br Jan

[thijs lankhorst_1]

Hi

Thanks all for your suggestions and help and have used rcp to do this and worked fine.

Can right the syntax down if anybody is interested.