Re: Verbose logging when using scp

From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Don Brown
I have read I am now more confused if I should be using SCP or SFTP.
I am using SCP as there is only a single file to be transferred at a
time and therefore saw no need to create a script file

scp and sftp are equally secure. The sftp client is intended for
interactive use. scp is better for your purposes. See this supersuer
question:
http://superuser.com/questions/134901/whats-the-difference-between-scp-and-sftp

You probably want to add -C to compress the stream and speed things up.
Having the remote user zip the csv and you unzipping it would reduce the
payload further.

Kevin is correct that -v is as verbose as scp and sftp both get. You just
need to pipe the output to a file. However, -v is probably more verbose
than you want, and you probable want to omit it unless you care about the
intricacies of the ssh session. Omitting the -v will get you file not found
and public/private key wrong error messages.

However, some of those error messages will go to stderr and not stdout You
Probably want to use &> instead of > . That will definitely work with bash
in PASE, I'm not sure about the default ksh shell.

This page is good reading on I/O redirection in unix
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-3.html.


Justin