Re: sftp conditional scripting

Only way I can think of is to invoke the script twice, with different
values for the environment variables. I can do that, but it is so
tempting to try to do it all in one session. Maybe two is better.

John McKee

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Do you know how to do it outside of sftp? Just call the sftp script for
each file that needs to be sent. I not a pgmr so all those neat tricks you
folks do above me.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:02 PM, John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some days, I need to send two files, other days, only one.  The remote
site sends a warning email if the second file I send is empty.  I
would like to avoid that.

I have looked at several web pages, but I am unclear as to how to
create the needed code.

I don't know how to test this as the remote site just grabs files that
are uploaded.

I also don't know if the script can (or how to do it) determine if a
file is essentially empty.  First thought was to set an environment
variable based on result of RTV (can't remember which command to use,
but I have used it - just not in front of my terminal)

The current script does this, from memory:

expect "sftp>" put {$LOCALFILE}  {$RMTFILE}
expect "sftp>" put {$LCLFILE2} {$RMTFILE2}
expect "sftp>" send "exit\n"

I haven't found an example to conditionally send a file, but I can see
that it can be done.  Just don't know the syntax.

Thanks.

John McKee
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