Re: sftp conditional scripting

[Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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